27 January 2006
Mike Penning, has lent his support to a motion calling for a greater degree of Government funding for children’s hospices.
On 26th January 2006, Mike Penning co-sponsored an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for a greater degree of pubic funding for children’s hospices. Currently, children’s hospices receive, on average, only 5 per cent of their funding from public funds. Some receive even less.
Mike commends the Children’s Hospice Campaign launched by The Sun newspaper and Somerfields and Kwik Save supermarkets. The petition, has received over 200,000 signatures.
Mike Penning, who nominated a local hospice as his first MP’s ‘Charity of the Year’, fully supports the hospice movement. He said:
“I have first-hand experience of the valuable support and care given to patients and families by those who work in the adult hospice movement. This support must be even more valuable to a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening illness. It is incredible that children’s hospices receive such a raw deal. The Government must increase funding for children’s hospices and provide more help for Britain’s terminally-ill children.”
Text of the Early Day Motion, No. 1500:
CHILDREN'S HOSPICE FUNDING
“That this House notes that children's hospices receive only five per cent. on average of their funding from public funds and some receive only two per cent.; pays tribute to all who work as staff or volunteers in the hospice movement; commends the Children's Hospice funding petition of the Sun newpaper and Somerfields and Kwik Save supermarkets which has now been supported by well in excess of 200,000 UK residents; and calls on the Government to review its policy on this and to ensure that children's hospices receive at least 30 per cent. of their funding from public funds, in a similar way to adult hospices.”
On 26th January 2006, Mike Penning co-sponsored an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons calling for a greater degree of pubic funding for children’s hospices. Currently, children’s hospices receive, on average, only 5 per cent of their funding from public funds. Some receive even less.
Mike commends the Children’s Hospice Campaign launched by The Sun newspaper and Somerfields and Kwik Save supermarkets. The petition, has received over 200,000 signatures.
Mike Penning, who nominated a local hospice as his first MP’s ‘Charity of the Year’, fully supports the hospice movement. He said:
“I have first-hand experience of the valuable support and care given to patients and families by those who work in the adult hospice movement. This support must be even more valuable to a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening illness. It is incredible that children’s hospices receive such a raw deal. The Government must increase funding for children’s hospices and provide more help for Britain’s terminally-ill children.”
Text of the Early Day Motion, No. 1500:
CHILDREN'S HOSPICE FUNDING
“That this House notes that children's hospices receive only five per cent. on average of their funding from public funds and some receive only two per cent.; pays tribute to all who work as staff or volunteers in the hospice movement; commends the Children's Hospice funding petition of the Sun newpaper and Somerfields and Kwik Save supermarkets which has now been supported by well in excess of 200,000 UK residents; and calls on the Government to review its policy on this and to ensure that children's hospices receive at least 30 per cent. of their funding from public funds, in a similar way to adult hospices.”