Social Care

I will talk about how the Labour party will take forward proposals on the future of social care. ...

The hon. Lady refers to unpaid carers. Labour’s motion references the Communities and Local Gover...

I will come on later to discuss how we should proceed and whether we should proceed on a cross-pa...

I welcome the hon. Lady’s tone in this debate. It is very valuable. I know that she has taken an ...

We will come on to that. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to get into the mess that his party ma...

My hon. Friend refers again to local authority care homes. In my constituency, three superb local...

It is very important that we bear in mind that the 1.45 million workforce in care will have been ...

As my hon. Friend knows, in my constituency, which neighbours hers, we have a real problem in rec...

That is absolutely the case. In fact, in a recent meeting with Unison, I was told that, in our ar...

The hon. Lady talks about a squeeze in funding. On that basis, does she agree that it would be ri...

No, I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. That is one of the reasons why his party’s dementia t...

At last, the Government and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs have acknowledged that care workers...

I absolutely agree, and it was helpful of my hon. Friend to make that point. The sleep-ins issue ...

I do apologise for intervening so often. Does my hon. Friend agree, as my hon. Friend the Member ...

As I said earlier, I will come to our proposals; I do not want to jump around in my speech too mu...

The social care and hospital budgets have been merged in East Sussex, where my constituency is. A...

My local authority has the most advanced example of an integrated care organisation in the countr...

I am glad my hon. Friend has mentioned younger adults. Does she agree that investing in the care ...

Very much so. I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. It is concerning that planned consult...

I am always very impressed by the hon. Lady’s knowledge in this area, but just to clarify, did I ...

I am obviously coming to the end of my speech, but I recommend that the hon. Gentleman, if he is ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I am just going to finish.

Our motion asks for action to make sure the care sector gets...

I am grateful for the opportunity to respond in this debate. It gives the Government an opportuni...

Decreasing.

They all have the best of motivations in providing care, and we should celebrate the work they do...

I thank the Minister for raising that issue, because we should not be so negative about this area...

My hon. Friend highlights just some of the many examples up and down the country, but we should n...

The Minister is right to say that there are none so noble as those who care. However, may I press...

The hon. Gentleman raises an extremely important point that I am actively thinking about. He is a...

At least 60% of those receiving social care in the home and 70% of those in care homes are people...

I invite the House to reflect on what the hon. Lady has said, because that is exactly the issue t...

Am I right in thinking that under current statute law, a cap of £72,500 will apply from the finan...

My right hon. Friend is indeed correct.

The ageing population presents one of our nation’s ...

In a spirit of cross-party consensus, may I add my support to the issue raised by the hon. Member...

I could not agree more. I share my right hon. Friend’s support for the hon. Lady’s comments. Ther...

It is very important that we have got to this point today, because very many organisations and in...

There needs to be a separate work stream because it is connected to the desire to get more people...

Picking up the point about the work being separate but parallel, in thinking about how we are goi...

Again, I agree with everything that my right hon. Friend says.

To reassure the hon. Member ...

I am glad that we are spending time on this subject. The Minister will recognise, I am sure, that...

I could not put it better myself. Necessarily, the system will always focus more on those with th...

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I will take one more intervention, but I really do need to make progress.

I thank the Minister for giving way. Can she give me some advice for my constituent—a mother with...

I am not very impressed by the tale that the hon. Lady describes, but I would like to look into i...

The Minister refers to a number of options that the Government will consider. Will they also cons...

I agree that we want to learn from examples in other countries. As I have said, the spirit of the...

Will the Minister give way?

I must make some progress, because I have taken many interventions. I do apologise.

Adult s...

This is an important point. Our motion mentions the need to close the funding gap, which is not £...

I do not accept that. Let us recognise that this has been hard in the past. We have made money av...

Does the Minister accept that the Government are providing less funding for social care than they...

I think it matters a great deal that we have made £9.25 billion available.

Will the Minister give way on the funding issue?

I need to make progress. I apologise to my right hon. Friend.

On delayed transfers of care,...

Will the Minister give way?

I must make progress. Secondly, we put in place a comprehensive sector-led support offer. In earl...

Will the Minister give way?

I have limited time, and I really must get this improvement on the record.

The package also...

Leicestershire County Council fears that it could have £22 million removed from its budget becaus...

I reject the suggestion that there will be any kind of fine. The £22 million that the hon. Lady t...

Is the Minister saying that revising an allocation is not a fine? When an allocation is revised—p...

I am sorry, but that is not the case. The money will be retained by local government, but we will...

Will the Minister give way?

I have already taken too much time.

The measures I have set out have given our hard-working...

Order. Before I call the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford), who is speaking for the ...

We have all seen the figures about everyone getting older. If we look over the lifetime of the NH...

The hon. Lady is painting quite a rosy picture of the social care system in Scotland, but does sh...

I totally accept that the position is not entirely rosy. I said many times in the Chamber before ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford) and I particularly ...

It is a privilege to follow the Chair of the Health Committee, and I shall pick up on some of the...

It is a pleasure to follow my fellow east midlands MP, the hon. Member for Leicester West (Liz Ke...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to speak in this important debate.

As I am...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Leigh (Jo Platt).

I think that there is a co...

I begin with these words:

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those...

I concur with pretty much everything said this afternoon. As an MP who recently fought a marginal...

Nearly every day, my office is introduced to a new case in which a constituent and his or her fam...

Order.

2.48 pm

As part of my self-imposed induction into membership of the Health Committee, I undertook a tour ...

It is an honour to follow my constituency neighbour, the hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire ...

Our ageing population is undoubtedly one of the challenges of our age, and I am proud of what we ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this most important debate. I would like to thank m...

Order. I am afraid that I am going to have to cut the time limit on Back-Bench speeches to three ...

I am sure that all of us who have been out and about with care workers in our constituencies have...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am really sorry, but I cannot take any interventions. I have been asked not to.

Most sign...

Under the Conservative Government, social care is in crisis. That is clear to almost everyone in ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this debate on a subject that is vita...

It is a pleasure to speak in this Opposition day debate, and I thank colleagues for bringing it t...

East Sussex has the second-highest proportion of over 85-year-olds in the country, and that numbe...

Social care has been pushed into a state of emergency. A report by the CQC in July found that one...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on the extremely importan...

The benchmark of a civil society is how it treats its elderly, its vulnerable and those who need ...

Order.

3.30 pm

It is a pleasure to follow the contributions from Members on both sides of the House today in thi...

We have heard that the Local Government Association has estimated that adult social care faces a ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Preet Kaur Gill), who made ...

As the Minister clearly set out at the start of her speech, it is right and proper that we recogn...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to speak in this important debate. With the 70th...

We have had a good and full debate. I wish to thank the 25 Back-Bench colleagues who have contrib...

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Let me finish. I will let the hon. Lady in if she wants to apologise.

It is a play on words...

I need to remind the hon. Gentleman that the only money that we can spend is that that we collect...

I pay tribute to councillors who are making very difficult decisions under very tightly constrain...

This has been a wide-ranging and important debate on one of the most important social issues and ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will in a moment, but I want to make a little more progress and mention some of the people who ...

If the Minister values care, would he comment on untrained members of the public being offered £1...

It is important that we always have workers who are trained, and we are providing care in good-qu...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Again we see the Government refusing to vote on a moti...

Order. I cannot hear what the hon. Lady at the Dispatch Box is saying, and she is speaking to me....

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Again, we see the Government abstaining—refusing to vote on a mo...

The hon. Lady has taken this opportunity to make the points that she wishes to make, and the Hous...