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 341Cost of Living 2026-04-22
Families in Wales under Labour are suffering due [K to inflation in bills, wage stagnation, and the highest childcare costs in [K the UK. Plaid Cymru's universal childcare offer would be transformativ...
Community Spaces 2026-04-16
The charity St John's Winchester runs a brilliant [9D [K brilliant community space for people with dementia; I have attended it myse [4D [K myself and sung songs with them, including Motown. It is als...
Maternity Care 2026-04-14
The nation should be grateful for this Secretary [K of State and for what he is doing for maternal services, yet at Wythenshawe [11D [K Wythenshawe hospital in my constituency, the most recent Care Qu...
Topical Questions 2026-04-14
The much-loved Pembridge hospice in north Kensington has been closed to in-patients for several years, meaning that an area with acute health inequality has very limited palliative care options, despi...
Local Housing Allowance Rates 2026-04-13
Years of freezes to local housing allowance by su [2D [K successive Governments mean that it goes nowhere near covering the cost of [K social housing, let alone renting privately. In my constituency, ...
Topical Questions 2026-04-13
I have previously raised the case of the Ada Belfield care centre in Belper with my hon. Friend the Minister. At the moment, it has an uncertain future, because the Reform-led Derbyshire county counci...
Leasehold Reform Integrated Retirement Communities 2026-04-13
Wixams retirement village in Mid Bedfordshire is a wonderful, integrated retirement community, but I understand from the sector and the industry that that business model is under threat from the Gover...
Topical 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 ...