Oral Answers to Questions

Fiona Bruce Excerpts

Tuesday 6th October 2020 Commons Chamber

[Miss Sarah Dines (Derbyshire Dales) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support the adult care sector during the covid-19 outbreak.

[Fiona Bruce (Congleton) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support the adult care sector during the covid-19 outbreak.

[Scott Mann (North Cornwall) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support the adult care sector during the covid-19 outbreak.

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[Mr Speaker]

Order. We have to get through this grouped set of questions, and it is going to take us well into topicals time; the Minister really does need to speed up on the answers.

[Fiona Bruce]

I thank the Minister for the social care winter plan announced two weeks ago. Can she tell me when this half a billion pound infection control fund will be released to councils covering constituencies such as mine in Congleton, in order to help protect residents and staff over the winter?

[Helen Whately]

The infection control fund is being distributed in two equal instalments, the first of which has already been paid to local authorities. My hon. Friend’s local authority, Cheshire East Council, will be receiving £4.7 million in total, so it should already have received £2.35 million to go towards the extra costs for care providers and others in infection prevention and control.