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Baroness Keeley Excerpts
Tuesday 15th January 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Hammond Portrait The Minister for Health (Stephen Hammond)
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My right hon. Friend is right to welcome the announcement for Scarborough Hospital, and I understand that the full business case for the redevelopment of Whitby Hospital is going through the Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby governing body for approval on 24 January. I am assured that the clinical commissioning group remains supportive of the redevelopment of Whitby Hospital and, if it is helpful, I would obviously be delighted to meet him after 24 January.

Baroness Keeley Portrait Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South) (Lab)
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This Government’s cuts to council budgets have meant that 100,000 fewer people received publicly funded social care over the past three years, and 90 people a day died while waiting for social care last year. What does the Secretary of State think it says to their families that the social care Green Paper and the meaningful funding settlement have been delayed again?

Caroline Dinenage Portrait The Minister for Care (Caroline Dinenage)
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The hon. Lady knows that we have given councils access to nearly £10 billion over a three-year period to address this very issue, but she is right to highlight the issues at the heart of social care. We will be publishing the Green Paper very shortly.