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Ministerial statement on Monday, 4 July 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Lansley.

Reform of Social Care

Statement on the reform of social care.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
530 c1232-48 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State and all colleagues who participated.
Lord Lansley | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question, and I will, indeed, join her—and, I am sur...
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Lord Lansley | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and in his county the early implementation of health and wellbeing boar...
Andrea Leadsom | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) A constituent of mine who is 61 years old is the full-time carer for both her disabled husband, who ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I hope we will be able to take up and develop that durin...
Neil Carmichael | 530 c1248 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that in a modern, responsive and caring social care system, we need ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, this is one of the issues on which I hope we will have further discussion as part...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) I have four Southern Cross homes in my constituency. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Southe...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1247 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The children's hospice movement has done immensely good work ove...
Jason McCartney | 530 c1246-7 (Link to this contribution) End-of-life care is massively enhanced by Kirkwood hospice in my part of west Yorkshire, and the con...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Yes I do, and one of the essential reasons why the Dilnot commission was rightly established is that...
Paul Uppal | 530 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Dilnot report goes some way to addressing the long-standing...
David Rutley | 530 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, and it is particularly welcome in Cheshire east where we anticipate a 120% ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) In the past, Governments received advice from the regulator about the desirability of their being ab...
Philip Hollobone | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) How will the Secretary of State ensure that the very best examples of the hospice movement, such as ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will know, Tom Hughes-Hallett, the chief executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care—who ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) We have made specific additional provision to support respite care. I hope that people will be given...
Charlie Elphicke | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) As we know, going into a home is long on cost but short on life expectancy. I particularly welcomed ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will know, local authorities were keen for many of the grants that we provided not...
Bob Stewart | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) My local borough, Bromley, tries very hard to use its resources for social care as efficiently as po...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) But there is the nub of a very good question there. If we develop greater national consistency in el...
Speaker | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady, but I think that that is an excellent subject for h...
Anne Marie Morris | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Dilnot report's many practical suggestions, which will be very important in Devon beca...
David Nuttall | 530 c1244 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that improved palliative care will be enormously helpful to those of...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I share with my hon. Friend the feeling that if we can improve the quality of end-of-life care and g...
Catherine McKinnell | 530 c1244 (Link to this contribution) The increased availability of care at home is to be welcomed, but it also poses increased challenges...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. At the heart of this, we know that additional resources have to ...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 530 c1244 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and I welcome the Dilnot review. As other Members h...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1244 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a number of important points. As the Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Membe...
Lord Watts | 530 c1243 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that many people both inside and outside the House believe that...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1243 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have a Southern Cross care home in my constituency and I am su...
Julian Sturdy | 530 c1243 (Link to this contribution) Through the broad principles of the Dilnot report and the work already carried out by the Government...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1243 (Link to this contribution) Many people would therefore be wrong in that respect, because we are clear about taking this report ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1244 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's point relates to the degree of uncertainty and insecurity that the current system t...
Marcus Jones | 530 c1243 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government are taking the action necessary to ensure that...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) The difference in approach is the result of devolution.
Lord Lansley | 530 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman's point about local government, he should remember that the overwhelming major...
Anne Main | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) If we are to see elderly and disabled people needing more carers, my right hon. Friend will need to ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. During the engagement that we are undertaking, one of the areas tha...
Ronnie Campbell | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State tell us why one part of the UK gets care free and the other has to pay? I...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1238 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes and in the past some of the criticisms of...
Oliver Colvile | 530 c1238 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as I have an elderly step-mother who is in a home and this will be very import...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1238 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that the statement I have made is the product of collective d...
Dennis Skinner | 530 c1238 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that it would be a big mistake to miss this opportunity for root-a...
Lord Blunkett | 530 c1238 (Link to this contribution) As a vice-president of the Alzheimer's Society, and like many hon. Members, I am aware that it is de...
Meg Munn | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that all sorts of new and innovative ways of caring for elderly...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady very well illustrates one reason why Andrew Dilnot's commission is, among its recommen...
Sarah Newton | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the report and the Secretary of State's statement. It was the previous Governmen...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree with my hon. Friend. That is indeed what we will set out to do. There have been many fa...
John Healey | 530 c1234-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Health Secretary for the copy of his statement, and for making it to the House himself. ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1232-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I wish to make a statement on the reform of social care. The coalition Government ...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. This is very much about ensuring that, at the same...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1242 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know that we are continuously seeking to improve the standards of care that older...
Nick de Bois | 530 c1242 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend might be aware that more than 100,000 people a year are not receiving the palli...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1242 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I very much welcomed and encouraged the dialogue that took place between An...
Jim Cunningham | 530 c1242 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Secretary of State is aware that there are concerns nationally—and locally in Cov...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman feels that the Government have been anything other than absolutely ...
Emma Reynolds | 530 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I should remind Government Members that this issue has already been delayed because the Conservative...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not accept the hon. Lady's premise. I am not going to revisit the past, but th...
Margot James | 530 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Dilnot proposals, but does my right hon. Friend agree that he should resist the demand...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1240 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a fair point. It was clear that had we sought to publish a White Paper before C...
Jack Dromey | 530 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution) Dilnot offers a new dawn but not for three years, and in the meantime the fabric of social care is c...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1240 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be aware that the maximum reduction in local authorities' spending power t...
Sarah Wollaston | 530 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I understand the need for the timetable to allow for adequate consultation, but Andrew Dilnot's exce...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand my hon. Friend's point. In the course of the engagement during the latter part...
Baroness Keeley | 530 c1240 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that there are two issues: not just the future funding of social care but the current fu...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe I did say that there was no crisis. The hon. Lady and the House must recognise, how...
Oliver Heald | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State has gone wider than the Dilnot report today. It was a...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That is precisely why we drafted the Health and Social Care Bill in...
Christopher Pincher | 530 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Because Haunton Hall nursing home in Tamworth is owned by Southern Cross, its fate is of grave conce...
John Pugh | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that it will be easier to get agreement on the principles un...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the welcome that he gives to the report by Andrew Diln...
Alison McGovern | 530 c1242 (Link to this contribution) Funding for care is clearly a hugely important issue, but so is the quality of the care that older p...
Tony Baldry | 530 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I think everyone knows where we want to get to on palliative care. We want to provide those people w...
Lord Lansley | 530 c1237 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Although we are looking to ensure that we have a sustainable sys...
Subjects
Care homes Finance Fees and charges Home care services Older people Palliative care Regulation Commission on the Funding of Care and Support Southern Cross Healthcare Palliative Care Funding Review
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