Kim Johnson, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, raised the case with Angela Rayner in the House of Commons
A bid to save one of Liverpool’s most vital children’s hospices threatened with closure has been raised in Parliament. The entire city was rocked by the announcement earlier this month that Zoe’s Place in West Derby would face closure at the end of the year as the lease on its current home on Yew Tree Lane is expiring and it had “insufficient time and money” to relocate. This is despite a planning application for a new £3.5m facility being greenlit by Liverpool Council just weeks ago.
Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree with me that hospices like these needs to be on a statutory footing and not reliant on charitable funding?” Ms Rayner replied: “I thank my honourable friend for that question and the hospice situation in this country has faced significant challenges because of the 14 years of devastation under the Conservatives. The health secretary has already raised these issues and knows that this is of importance and I’ll make sure she gets a meeting.
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