Extract from Lords motion
to consider the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Fire
and Rescue Functions) Order 2017
(Lab):
My Lords, first, I make my usual declaration of interests as in
the register; specifically that I am a local councillor and a
vice-president of the Local Government Association. The two
orders before us I have no issue with, and my comments will be
correspondingly brief. The Minister, the noble Lord, , and my noble friend
, who is a member of the
authority, are the experts here...
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Extract from Health
Questions (Social Care: Unmet Needs)
(Worsley and Eccles South)
(Lab): But 1.2 million older people are living with
unmet care needs. The £1 billion that was announced in the Budget
for this year is not enough to prop up the failing care sector,
when many councils are suffering contracts being handed back.
Given that 1 million people over the age of 65 do not have adult
children, will the Minister explain how all those people living
with unmet care needs are meant to manage?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
(David Mowat): The figure on unmet care needs comes from
an Age UK analysis. I am meeting Age UK to go through its recent
report, but we do not accept that analysis because the Care Act
2014, which had cross-party support, set statutory consistent
definitions for what care councils have to provide. It is illegal
for that not to be met, and our follow-up work with the Local
Government Association has indicated that it is being met.
Furthermore, we have put in a 17% increase over the next three
years.
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