Adult Social Care Debate
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Lord Watts
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Adult Social Care
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Lord Markham (Con)
As I say, we are seeing staff increases. I accept that there is a lot to do in this space, but there has been a 1% increase this year, so we have turned things round quite substantially. Overall, the number of patients being cared for in this way went up by 15,000 in the last year. As the ADASS survey showed, there has been a decrease in the waiting lists, down 13% from the peak, so we have turned a corner and we will see further improvements.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, the Minister said that waiting lists have gone down by 13%. Can he tell us by how much they went up over the previous 12 years?
Lord Markham (Con)
I do not have the figures for those 12 years, but I will happily send them to the noble Lord.