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Social care services, care homes, adult social care (NOT migrant care workers)

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PMQs 2026-01-14

2026-01-14 Full Name
Partial Answer

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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-11-26

2025-11-26 Alison Bennett
Direct Answer

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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-11-12

2025-11-12 Sojan Joseph
Direct Answer

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 ...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-09-03

2025-09-03 Ed Davey
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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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-05-07

2025-05-07 Ed Davey
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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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-02-26

2025-02-26 Evans
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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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2025-02-12

2025-02-12 Liz Jarvis
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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 ...

Answered by: The Prime Minister

PMQs 2025-01-08

2025-01-08 Ed Davey
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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...

Answered by: The Prime Minister (Keir Starmer)

PMQs 2024-12-11

2024-12-11 Ellie Chowns
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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...

Answered by: Keir Starmer

PMQs 2024-11-20

2024-11-20 Liz Saville-Roberts
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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...

Answered by: Angela Rayner

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Topical Questions 2026-03-10

2026-03-10 Paul Davies (Colne Valley) (Labour)
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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...

Answered by: Lucy Rigby

NHS Dental Services Morecambe and Lunesdale 2026-02-24

2026-02-24 Lizzi Collinge (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Labour)
Partial Answer

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...

Answered by: Stephen Kinnock

Leasehold Reform 2026-02-23

2026-02-23 Lee Dillon (Newbury) (Liberal Democrat)
Partial Answer

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 ...

Answered by: Steve Reed

Children’s Care Home Providers Financial Oversight 2026-01-19

2026-01-19 Sarah Olney (Richmond Park) (LD)
Partial Answer

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?...

Answered by: The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Josh MacAlister)

Topical Questions 2026-01-13

2026-01-13 Helen Morgan (North Shropshire) (LD)
Direct Answer

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...

Answered by: The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Wes Streeting)

East Sussex County Council Elections 2025-11-24

2025-11-24 James MacCleary (Lewes) (LD)
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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...

Answered by: The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Steve Reed)

Buckinghamshire Council Funding 2025-11-24

2025-11-24 Callum Anderson (Buckingham and Bletchley) (Lab)
Partial Answer

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?...

Answered by: The Minister for Local Government and Homelessness (Alison McGovern)

Public Procurement Employment 2025-10-23

2025-10-23 Andy McDonald (Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) (Lab)
Partial Answer

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...

Answered by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office)

Topical Questions 2025-10-21

2025-10-21 Sarah Smith (Hyndburn) (Lab)
Direct Answer

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...

Answered by: The Minister for Care (Stephen Kinnock)

NHS Reorganisation 2025-10-21

2025-10-21 Dr Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham) (Con)
Partial Answer

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...

Answered by: The Minister for Secondary Care (Karin Smyth)

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