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Oral Answers to Questions

Eleanor Smith Excerpts
Wednesday 8th May 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Eleanor Smith Portrait Eleanor Smith (Wolverhampton South West) (Lab)
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Q2. I am the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on adult social care, and I would like to know when the long-awaited Green Paper on social care will be published. We have been waiting years for this. In January, the Health and Social Care Secretary said that it would happen “before April”. It is now May. Will the Prime Minister tell me when it will finally be available?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I commend the hon. Lady for her work on the APPG. We are working on providing the Green Paper on social care. She complains that it has been delayed for a matter of months, but may I remind her that the last Labour Government had 13 years to deliver a sustainable social care system, and they did absolutely nothing?