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Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Laura Smith(5 years, 1 month ago)
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Laura Smith (Crewe and Nantwich) (Lab)
What is the Chancellor doing to make sure local authorities have sufficient funding to allow care providers to pay sleep-in shifts at a national living wage rate?
Elizabeth Truss
We are currently working on this with the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Laura Smith(5 years, 7 months ago)
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Laura Smith (Crewe and Nantwich) (Lab)
This is further to the points raised by my hon. Friends the Members for Ilford North (Wes Streeting) and for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury). In the light of the National Audit Office’s recent comments that there are signs that police forces are struggling to deliver effective services and that the Government do not know whether the police system is financially sustainable, what real reassurance can the Chancellor give me that police forces will be given a real increase in funding, so that they can cope with growing demand?
Elizabeth Truss
Police force funding has been protected in real terms. The nature of crime is changing, and police forces are reforming to reflect that.