Adult Social Care Funding

Madeleine Moon Excerpts
Thursday 6th July 2017

(7 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I have said that we will consult on detailed proposals later this year, which will include a capital floor and an absolute limit on the amount that people can be asked to pay. Those two critical pillars must go together.

Madeleine Moon Portrait Mrs Madeleine Moon (Bridgend) (Lab)
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More care homes may face closure if they cannot access migrant workforces. What steps will the Government take to ensure that migrant workers, who are happy to work in our care homes and who provide excellent standards of care, will still be able to come to the UK after Brexit?

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The Secretary of State has been absolutely clear, including at oral questions earlier this week, that we see the migrant workforce as critical to the NHS, by which we mean in-patient care as well as the social care system—we want to see those protected.