Social Care
Social care services, care homes, adult social care (NOT migrant care workers)
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 81PMQs 2026-01-14
Families, pensioners, schools, care homes and businesses have been without any water since Saturday. The water company bosses involved stand accused of misleading Parliament over their failures. Given...
PMQs 2025-11-26
University Hospitals Sussex currently has 350 people well enough to go home, but occupying beds. That is the same number of beds as in Princess Royal hospital in Haywards Heath in my constituency. The...
PMQs 2025-11-12
Despite extra Government funding, adult social care services in my community are in disarray. My constituents also face a new fire risk because we do not have a fully functioning fire authority. This ...
PMQs 2025-09-03
Here is an issue on which I hope the Prime Minister will agree with me. The European convention on human rights is a British creation that protects all our basic rights and freedoms: the rights of chi...
PMQs 2025-05-07
Among the messages that voters sent to Ministers last week, one stood out: bring back the winter fuel payment for millions of struggling pensioners. People will therefore be disappointed that the Prim...
PMQs 2025-02-26
Could the Prime Minister tell this House whether the outcome of his Budget was by design or by mistake? Did he mean to push 100,000 pensioners into poverty with his own analysis when he removed the wi...
PMQs 2025-02-12
My constituents Peter and Maureen have been married for 70 years. Peter is 93 and has been stuck in a hospital ward for weeks waiting to go home because a care package has not been arranged. Will the ...
PMQs 2025-01-08
Fixing the care crisis is urgent for millions affected. Over 12,000 patients are stuck in hospitals without proper care. The PM agrees on cross-party approach but can he speed up work so 2025 sees rea...
PMQs 2024-12-11
My constituent contacted me regarding an inability to get an ambulance for a critically ill patient because all ambulances were outside Hereford A&E waiting to unload their patients. Meanwhile, medica...
PMQs 2024-11-20
I know how much professional care work means to the Deputy Prime Minister. Cariad Care Homes in Porthmadog tells me that it will not be able to absorb the additional exorbitant costs imposed by her Go...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 334Topical Questions 2026-03-10
In my constituency, Co-operative Care Colne Valley is testament to the value and importance of co-operatives. It delivers ethical, not-for-profit home care services for the disabled and elderly. The g...
NHS Dental Services Morecambe and Lunesdale 2026-02-24
One of my constituents cannot get dental care at home due to disability. He recently waited three months for an emergency extraction, which should have been done on the same day if he was not disabled...
Leasehold Reform 2026-02-23
I thank the Secretary of State for his response and welcome the support being given to leaseholders; however, many of the problems they face could be addressed through stronger regulation of managing ...
Children’s Care Home Providers Financial Oversight 2026-01-19
Following up on the Public Accounts Committee report published last Friday, what more can the Government do to ensure that children’s homes have appropriate financial and governance oversight?...
Topical Questions 2026-01-13
The social care crisis is piling pressure on hospitals, with beds taken up by patients who are fit enough to be discharged. It is also piling pressure on local councils such as Shropshire, where 80% o...
East Sussex County Council Elections 2025-11-24
Cuts to adult social care, collapsing support for children with special educational needs and disabilities, roads full of potholes—the list goes on. The Conservatives have failed East Sussex for too l...
Buckinghamshire Council Funding 2025-11-24
Will the Minister set out in a bit more detail how the fair funding review will take into account the specific needs and pressures faced by councils serving rural communities?...
Public Procurement Employment 2025-10-23
With the Government’s welcome commitment to improving terms, conditions and career progression in adult social care, as demonstrated through the planned fair pay agreement and the care workforce pathw...
Topical Questions 2025-10-21
As you may be aware, Mr Speaker, Reform-led Lancashire county council has opened a consultation on the future of care homes across Lancashire, including the proposal to close Woodlands care home in my...
NHS Reorganisation 2025-10-21
I am concerned that the disruption caused by an uncosted, unplanned simultaneous reorganisation of NHS England and the ICBs is affecting patient care. Before the summer, the Joint Committee on Vaccina...