Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Whately and Tom Hunt

Tuesday 5th March 2024 Commons Chamber

[Tom Hunt (Ipswich) (Con)]

The idea of a social care cost cap has dropped off the agenda slightly. I know it is incredibly expensive, but I continue to be contacted by constituents who face losing everything. When often their loved ones have dementia and it is already emotionally an incredibly traumatic time, they have the added anxiety of how they are going to pay for care. The only thing that should matter is what works and is best for their loved one, but there is a cloud of anxiety hanging over society, which we all worry about. Will the Minister confirm that this issue has not lost her attention and that we will continue to consider whether we can introduce a cap?

[Helen Whately]

I thank my hon. Friend for his important question on concerns about the cost of care and how much it costs some people. As he may know—I remind him—the charging reforms were delayed in 2022 by the Chancellor after we listened to local authorities.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Whately and Tom Hunt

Tuesday 1st February 2022 Commons Chamber

[Helen Whately]

The Government are committed to ensuring that the whole of the United Kingdom benefits from our investment in renewables and our transition to net zero and the growth that that affords us, and I am happy to look into the matter that the hon. Gentleman raised.

[Tom Hunt (Ipswich) (Con)]

9. What steps his Department is taking to increase wages and support the lowest-income households.