Care and Support

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming the announcements about access to univers...

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Order. Lots of Members want to get in and there is pressure on time. Brevity is in good order and...

I welcome the package of measures that my right hon. Friend has announced, which represent import...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. It was neglectful of me not to mention that the White Pape...

The Secretary of State seems to forget two things. First, his Government did not implement the Pe...

First, it is ironic that the shadow Secretary of State said that local authorities would be aghas...

I welcome the statement, which contains many good things, but without financial clarity we risk o...

The statement I have made is a Government statement. We are working closely with our colleagues a...

This is a much more important issue than Lords reform. It is important to millions of people in t...

I am not attempting to hoodwink anybody. I have made the point very clearly that in this financia...

I warmly welcome the statement. There is clear commitment in a number of good areas, including im...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right in all respects. I know that local government will welcome the...

It is clear that the Secretary of State is moving on from causing chaos in the NHS to causing it ...

I am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman simply demonstrates his ignorance of what is in the White Pape...

My right hon. Friend’s statement will be widely welcomed, especially the loans aspect and the emp...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. A study published in the latter part of last year demonstrate...

On 5 December last year, the Minister with responsibility for disabled people said in a written m...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, because she gives me the opportunity to say that my colleagues at...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, and in particular the recognition of the role of hous...

The £200 million over a period of five years that I have announced today will be able to leverage...

The Secretary of State says that he can give no commitments past the spending review in 2015. How...

I know that the hon. Gentleman will not have had a chance to look in detail at the White Paper, b...

As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on carers, I welcome the new rights for carers t...

I am grateful for the work of my hon. Friend and the all-party group. This is an important moment...

May I return to the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Halton (Derek Twigg) made? Have loca...

We have consulted not only the Local Government Association but my colleagues at the Department f...

There is much to be welcomed in today’s announcement. After so many years, people all over the co...

Yes, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I will not reiterate what I said in response to the Cha...

A delayed solution to the growing crisis in social care is no solution. In Birmingham, there are ...

I know it is difficult for hon. Members when documents are published alongside a statement and th...

I, too, greatly welcome today’s statement and congratulate my right hon. Friend on taking forward...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. We want people who move from England to Wales or from Wa...

In response to the White Paper, the NHS Confederation has said that people are

“staying in ...

The total number of delayed discharges is broadly the same as it was last year and, I believe, fr...

I very much welcome many of the measures that my right hon. Friend has announced, particularly on...

Yes, I am glad to do so. Through the work that we are doing with Skills for Health and Skills for...

There are 800,000 people in this country with dementia, a devastating condition for themselves an...

I am sorry that the right hon. Lady does not seem to recognise that in addition to what I have an...

Like carers and many vulnerable people across the country, I warmly welcome the White Paper and t...

On the latter point, my hon. Friend will be aware that the national eligibility threshold that we...

If we are to offer people the dignity and respect that the Secretary of State has talked about an...

The hon. Gentleman will know that we are making resources available for HealthWatch. It also has ...

I have a great deal of respect for the Secretary of State, but I agree with the chief executive o...

In this instance, I completely understand where the Alzheimer’s Society is coming from. We all wa...

The Secretary of State referred to deferred payments. In the time before the individual dies, who...

From the care user’s point of view, it will be funded by local authorities. Central Government wi...

The residents of Thanet will be reassured by the paper, particular when it comes to caring by the...

I agree with my hon. Friend. That is why we want the focus to be on maintaining well-being and in...

Without underestimating the inherent challenges, may I welcome the statement and commend the appr...

As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Glyn Davies), I completely understand th...

As the Member of Parliament who represents the area with the highest elderly population in the no...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I know how important the work of Crossroads Care is in my consti...

Given the scale of the care crisis in Wirral, I have listened to my constituents at a number of p...

As I said in the statement, we absolutely intend for care services to be responsive to the needs ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making progress on this problem, which is a worry for so many of...

My hon. Friend will see in the progress report that we need to discuss both the universal options...

I welcome many measures in the paper, including on the transition from being a child needing care...

I completely understand my hon. Friend’s point. We very much reflect the need for care and health...

Councils have faced a £1 billion cut in their funding for care of the disabled and elderly since ...

I am sorry, but I simply do not recognise the figures that the hon. Gentleman is using. The Assoc...

My constituent who has been campaigning on portability of care packages outwith England will be e...

I will not attempt—not least because of time—to give an analysis of the difficulties that have be...

The Health Secretary has spoken about the catastrophic costs that face some older adults sufferin...

We are very clear—I hope I have been clear—that the adoption of a universal deferred payment sche...

Without a cap on costs, which is what the Dilnot commission proposed for universal deferred schem...

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has read out the Whips’ question, but he did not listen to the...