Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Cryer and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 14th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

I absolutely join my hon. Friend in congratulating Herefordshire Housing. One of the key things about people with dementia is that relatively small adjustments to their homes can make it possible for them to live at home healthily and happily for much longer under the care of a husband, wife or partner without having to go into residential care. Those are precious years that we should treasure and do everything we can to facilitate, so I am delighted that that is happening, and he will be pleased to know that, thanks to the Government’s initiative, it is happening all over the country.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

Figures from the House of Commons Library show that £1.8 billion has been cut from social care budgets since 2010. Does not that imply that delayed discharge among older people will be driven upwards because the finances are just not there to look after them?

[Mr Hunt]

I think the figures the hon. Gentleman is talking about are efficiencies and not actual cuts. [Laughter.] Well, Members should look at the figures carefully. If they are the figures from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, that is what they will find. If the hon. Gentleman looks more specifically at the figures related to delayed discharges, he will find that, year on year, the number attributable to the social care system went down by 50,000 bed days in the last year.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Cryer and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 16th July 2013 Commons Chamber

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

Further to the question from the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie), Ministers often—quite rightly—mention the importance of whistleblowers, so why have the Government weakened protection for whistleblowers through the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013?

[Mr Jeremy Hunt]

We are strengthening protection for whistleblowers and are going much further by creating a culture of openness and transparency in the NHS, where people are not bullied if they speak out about poor care.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Cryer and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 16th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

The Secretary of State said earlier that 1 million extra people are attending A and Es annually, but a few minutes later he said that the figure was 4 million. Which one is it?

[Mr Hunt]

It is an additional 4 million since the disastrous changes to the GP contract and an additional 1 million since the last election.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Cryer and Jeremy Hunt

Thursday 14th June 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

That is precisely what we are currently looking at. There is a consultation under way and we are looking at the problem carefully. We take it very seriously and welcome any representations made by my hon. Friend or any other Members to ensure that we get this right.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

Has the Secretary of State found time to explain the ministerial code of conduct to his new special adviser, and if so, when?

[Mr Hunt]

The hon. Gentleman can be sure that I will be finding plenty of time to explain the ministerial code in a great deal of detail to my new special adviser.

Phone Hacking and the Media

Debate between Lord Cryer and Jeremy Hunt

Monday 11th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

The Prime Minister is not here because today we have had an incredibly important development in a decision for which I am responsible. I therefore thought it important, as did he, that I came to speak to the House.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

The Secretary of State will be aware that, in his statement last Friday, the Prime Minister said that he commissioned a company to do a basic background check on Andy Coulson, but he omitted to name the company. I am sure that it was a perfectly innocent omission, but will the Secretary of State place those details in the Library of the House this afternoon?

[Mr Hunt]

I will pass on the hon. Gentleman’s request to the Prime Minister.