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Adults with Learning Disabilities

One reason why I have come to the debate and sat through certainly three quarters of it so far—I was a moment or two late—is that I was approached by East Cheshire Advocacy. It is extremely active in my constituency and the adjoining areas, but it needs help and funding to be able to continue to provide that very worthwhile advocacy, and not least, as the Minister rightly said, to complain, because that is often what people are unable, or feel themselves unable, to do. Is the Minister understanding of the modest sums that that charity needs to provide the excellent services that it does, and not only in east Cheshire? I have quite close contact with it and meet many of those who go to its weekly meetings. Does the Minister appreciate that it cannot operate on thin air?