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Health: Local Healthwatch Organisations
Monday 11th June 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Howe Portrait Earl Howe
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The noble Baroness raises the key issue of transition, which will be covered in the forthcoming White Paper.

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My Lords, the Government will be aware of the report, Reforming Social Care: Options for Funding, published by the Nuffield Foundation in May. What is their response to the proposal that some universal benefits that currently go to wealthy pensioners should be restricted to enable the implementation of the Dilnot report?

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My Lords, my noble friend raises an issue that has been very much in our sights as we have prepared the progress report on funding. I can only ask her to be patient a little longer until the report is published.

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