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Care and Support

Proceeding contribution from Lord Lansley (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 11 July 2012. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Care and Support.

On the latter point, my hon. Friend will be aware that the national eligibility threshold that we are legislating for will come into effect in 2015. We will of course make it clear before that at what level it will be set. I cannot provide that information at the moment, not least because we have reservations about the overall effectiveness of the classification of need under the fair access to care services system in the intervening period. If we can improve the eligibility framework, we will set out to do so.

I say to the right hon. Member for Leigh and his colleagues that I am very happy to continue to talk. I know that he did not want us to proceed on a unilateral basis from the progress report, but in truth what we published did not represent our making decisions unilaterally but instead reflected the point that we had reached. I am happy for further talks to take us beyond that point.

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Reference

548 c323 

Session

2012-13

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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