Hospice care BBC Question Time

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00:00Thank you. If memory serves me right, I think Anne Whittaker many, many years ago

00:05proposed a Royal Commission to look at the whole situation of social care and

00:09how it was funded. But why I'm here tonight is because I work and volunteer

00:13for Dorothy House Hospice, which covers 800 square miles, Wiltshire and Somerset.

00:18The new announcement of national insurance rates and the production and

00:23the banding of when that kicks in will be an impact on our finances of four

00:27hundred and twenty two thousand pounds in this financial year alone. How does

00:32the Treasury and Rachel Reeves justify not supporting hospices which provide

00:39excellent palliative care across the country, which the NHS itself admits it

00:43cannot do as well as local hospices? I've only got about 20 seconds left, I appreciate your time.

00:49But is that something that the government is prepared to look at and possibly review?

00:54Well look, we support the budget. Hospices do a fantastic job. We've had to

01:00take a very difficult decision on employing national insurance, but

01:05charities will continue not to pay business rates and we've also doubled the

01:09employment allowance for those smaller charities.

01:13They should be excluded though. Health and Care should be excluded.

01:15That's the limit of it. Okay, you got your answer. I'm not sure it's the answer you wanted but you got an answer.