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Tuesday 15th November 2016

(8 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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That was very dextrous handling of a very broad interpretation of the question on the Order Paper, but I hope that honour has been served.

Helen Jones Portrait Helen Jones (Warrington North) (Lab)
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14. The Cheshire and Merseyside sustainability and transformation plan relies heavily on more care in the community. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this will not work while local authority social care is being cut to the bone, because it will merely send people back to their own homes, where their health will deteriorate?

David Mowat Portrait David Mowat
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The Cheshire and Merseyside STP will be published tomorrow, and we will all know better then what it says. The hon. Lady is right that there is an interaction between social care and health, but she and I, as Warrington MPs, must both be pleased that Warrington is one of the top performers in terms of delayed transfers of care, and on that we should congratulate our local authorities.

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