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Tax Credits: Impact of Cuts

Care: Costs Cap

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Business of the House
Monday 14th September 2015

(9 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Stowell of Beeston Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston)
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My Lords, we have not heard from the Liberal Democrats. It is their turn.

Baroness Brinton Portrait Baroness Brinton
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My Lords, as questioners have illustrated to your Lordships’ House, we face a perfect storm with health and social care. There was cross-party agreement in advance of the 2010 election that the cap was vital. We have delayed discharges and local authorities facing a real crisis. Will the Government take action in the next few weeks to remedy this problem, of which the cap is an important part?

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