Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Simon Hoare and Wes Streeting

Tuesday 15th October 2024 Commons Chamber

[Simon Hoare (North Dorset) (Con)]

A significant impediment to improving adult social care is the split of budget and responsibility and policy between the Secretary of State’s Department and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Will he and colleagues work to remove that hurdle, to have better outcomes more cost-effectively delivered to improve the lives of all our constituents?

[Wes Streeting]

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that risk. I assure him and the House that I and the Deputy Prime Minister, herself a former care worker, are working in lockstep to align strategy, policy and delivery.