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Baroness Howarth of Breckland Excerpts
Monday 28th May 2012

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Howarth of Breckland Portrait Baroness Howarth of Breckland
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that one of the greatest inhibitors of long-term, consistent care is funding for individual placements? I speak and declare an interest as the president of Livability, which delivers long-term care for some elderly and a large number of younger disabled people. The great difficulty is ensuring that local authorities will commit to funding in the long term at an appropriate level.

Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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The noble Baroness is of course right, which is why it is so important that we reach what I hope will be a cross-party consensus on the future funding of long-term care and social care generally. We have committed to legislating as soon as we possibly can on that subject.