Debate on Tuesday, 1 October 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Vincent Cable. The answering members were Baroness Keeley and Caroline Dinenage.

Social Care Funding

Motion that this House has considered social care funding. Agreed to on question.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 664 cc252-279WH
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department of Health and Social Care
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Related items: Social Care Funding (2019)
Friday, 27 September 2019
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Proceeding contributions: Charles Walker | 664 c254WH (Link to this contribution)
Order. There are plenty of speakers, so we will have a time limit of four minutes, perhaps droppi...; Vincent Cable | 664 c254WH (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move,
That this House has considered social care funding.
I should like to i...; Kevin Hollinrake | 664 c254WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the right hon. Member give way?; Vincent Cable | 664 c254WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman wait a moment? I will happily take interventions in a few minutes.
...; Kevin Hollinrake | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I am also grateful for the opportunity ...; Vincent Cable | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
Yes, there is a lot of joint thinking. We have the joint House of Commons Committees, and my hon....; Jim Cunningham | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?; Vincent Cable | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman lets me go through this, I will take an intervention.
The first point...; 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution); Vincent Cable | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
I will take an intervention, but I will return to the theme in a moment.; Jim Cunningham | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on securing this timely debate. He refers to costs. The c...; Vincent Cable | 664 c255WH (Link to this contribution)
Yes, that is quite right. We tend to use dementia, particularly the work of the Alzheimer’s Socie...; Tim Farron | 664 c256WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. He rightly points out the importance of unp...; Vincent Cable | 664 c256WH (Link to this contribution)
Indeed. My hon. Friend is right, and he reinforces the central point I am making.; Bill Esterson | 664 c256WH (Link to this contribution)
A constituent of mine raised the case of her father who had been assessed by the health service a...; Vincent Cable | 664 cc256-7WH (Link to this contribution)
I will come to that point later and to the heart of what I understand to be the Labour proposal—o...; Karen Lee | 664 c1171WH (Link to this contribution)
I am an ex-nurse. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is right to offset the costs of soc...; Vincent Cable | 664 c258WH (Link to this contribution)
That is the case, and I hope that when the Green Paper appears there will be a proper, objective ...; Jamie Stone | 664 c258WH (Link to this contribution)
This was a flagship policy of the coalition Government in which I served in the Scottish Parliame...; Vincent Cable | 664 c258WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to point out the practicalities of this issue. That links to one of the c...; Sarah Wollaston | 664 c258WH (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend accept that this could be done in a step- wise fashion? We could probab...; Vincent Cable | 664 cc258-9WH (Link to this contribution)
That is a helpful and humane suggestion, and if we approach this whole question in terms of its p...; Lisa Cameron | 664 c259WH (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman is making a fantastic speech on what we will all agree—Brexit aside—is t...; Vincent Cable | 664 c259WH (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady is quite right. We are talking about a variety of conditions. I listed some, and Pa...; 664 c259WH (Link to this contribution); Charles Walker | 664 c259WH (Link to this contribution)
Order. We have lots of people. I am going to start with a time limit of four minutes, but do not ...; Emma Hardy | 664 cc259-260WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles.
I think we all accept that ...; Dan Poulter | 664 cc260-2WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles.
It is also a pleasure to pa...; Karen Lee | 664 cc262-3WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I will start by talking a little ...; Kevin Hollinrake | 664 cc263-4WH (Link to this contribution)
I appreciate the opportunity to talk about something other than Brexit, and to talk constructivel...; 664 c264WH (Link to this contribution); Charles Walker | 664 c264WH (Link to this contribution)
Everybody is being so disciplined about interventions, which is great. Faisal Rashid, you, too, c...; Faisal Rashid | 664 cc264-5WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. Making sure that the sick and eld...; Charles Walker | 664 c265WH (Link to this contribution)
Speeches are now limited to three minutes.
3.11 pm; Derek Thomas | 664 cc265-6WH (Link to this contribution)
I started the year encouraged by the 10-year plan and now by this weekend’s infrastructure invest...; Stephen Lloyd | 664 cc266-7WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I congratulate my right hon. Frie...; Anne Marie Morris | 664 cc267-8WH (Link to this contribution)
Today, we are looking at a question that is certainly as vexing as that faced by Nye Bevan when h...; Luke Pollard | 664 c268WH (Link to this contribution)
I thank the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Sir Vince Cable) for introducing this debate. I wil...; Rachael Maskell | 664 cc268-9WH (Link to this contribution)
We hold this debate against the severe cuts we have seen in local authorities, with £7.7 billion ...; Sarah Wollaston | 664 cc269-270WH (Link to this contribution)
I begin by paying tribute to all the family carers and the care workforce, including those who lo...; Charles Walker | 664 c270WH (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, colleagues. We now move to the Front-Bench speeches.
3.29 pm; Martyn Day | 664 cc270-1WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I am grateful to the right hon. M...; Charles Walker | 664 cc271-2WH (Link to this contribution)
I want to give Sir Vince Cable two minutes at the end, so if the other Front-Bench colleagues cou...; Baroness Keeley | 664 cc272-3WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a pleasure to speak in a debate with you in the Chair, Sir Charles. I think that this is th...; Melanie Onn | 664 c273WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech and paints a picture of social care in this country....; Baroness Keeley | 664 c274WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For people with dementia and learning disabilities, seeing a ...; Kevin Hollinrake | 664 c274WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Lady give way?; Baroness Keeley | 664 c274WH (Link to this contribution)
I do not have time.
A few months ago, we pledged £350 million a year for community resource...; Charles Walker | 664 c275WH (Link to this contribution)
Thank you. Minister, if you could leave two minutes at the end for Sir Vincent Cable to wind up t...; Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc275-1176WH (Link to this contribution)
It is a great pleasure to serve under your stewardship in this important debate, Sir Charles, and...; Jamie Stone | 664 c1176WH (Link to this contribution)
May I associate myself with what the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard...; Caroline Dinenage | 664 c276WH (Link to this contribution)
That is an excellent intervention, and the hon. Gentleman is right to say that we must do more to...; Bambos Charalambous | 664 c276WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?; Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc1177-277WH (Link to this contribution)
I will make some progress, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind.
As a result of our investme...; Dan Poulter | 664 c277WH (Link to this contribution)
The better care fund and how it is applied on the ground locally varies across the country. Overa...; Caroline Dinenage | 664 cc277-8WH (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right to say there were teething problems, but in the most recent reporting cyc...; Rachael Maskell | 664 c278WH (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?; Caroline Dinenage | 664 c278WH (Link to this contribution)
I do not have time. We also fund the workforce development fund, and social care employers can bi...; Vincent Cable | 664 cc278-9WH (Link to this contribution)
Sir Charles, thank you for safeguarding the last 10 minutes. I tried to approach this whole subje...; Charles Walker | 664 c279WH (Link to this contribution)
Colleagues, thank you for sharing out the time so well.
Question put and agreed to.
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Subjects: Carers Community care Finance Older people Standards Social services Vacancies
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Social Care Funding

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