Debates between Andrea Jenkyns and Anne Main during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Care Homes: England

Debate between Andrea Jenkyns and Anne Main
Wednesday 13th January 2016

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Andrea Jenkyns Portrait Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con)
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I have been a councillor, so I know that budgets have been quite tight in local authorities over the years. A care home in my constituency, Siegen Manor, is possibly due to close. Does the right hon. Lady agree that we need to look at the way councils spend money? In my new city council, there is a lot of wastage. We need to look at how councils spend their money, because I could give a lot of examples of how they could—

Anne Main Portrait Mrs Anne Main (in the Chair)
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Order. I call Joan Ryan.