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David Morris Excerpts
Tuesday 19th December 2017

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait Jackie Doyle-Price
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The hon. Lady will be aware that, immediately following these questions, we will be having a statement on funding from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. I remind her again that we have made an additional £9.25 billion available for social care over three years, but she is right that the long-term sustainability will be addressed by reform, which is why we are bringing forward the Green Paper. As to the figures on unmet needs, I simply do not recognise them. The entitlement to care is enshrined in the Care Act, and those rights are protected.

David Morris Portrait David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Con)
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6. What his priorities are for the additional funding allocated to the NHS in autumn Budget 2017.

David Amess Portrait Sir David Amess (Southend West) (Con)
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14. What his priorities are for the additional funding allocated to the NHS in autumn Budget 2017.

Philip Dunne Portrait The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr Philip Dunne)
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The autumn Budget committed to backing the NHS, so that by 2019-20, it will have received an additional £2.8 billion of revenue funding for frontline services, including £337 million for winter allocated last Friday and £3.5 billion of new capital investment by 2022-23 to transform the estate.

David Morris Portrait David Morris
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I welcome the recent Budget announcement of billions more funding for the NHS, particularly the extra support to prepare for the winter. Will the Minister tell me what share of funding my local hospital will attain this winter?

Philip Dunne Portrait Mr Dunne
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My hon. Friend needs to be congratulated in this House on being a champion of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. The trust has been through some difficulty, and he has stuck with it and supported it. I can confirm that the trust was allocated up to £2 million of funding last Friday; I congratulate it on that. I am sure that he would also join me in congratulating the trust on recently being awarded the title of the eighth most inclusive employer in the UK.