Oral Answers to Questions

Mike Amesbury Excerpts

Tuesday 5th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[Robert Jenrick]

My hon. Friend has been raising this matter assiduously. At the spring statement in 2018, the Government announced that Medway’s housing infrastructure fund bid was shortlisted for the next stage of assessment, and we look forward to receiving the final proposal later this month. It will be considered alongside other HIF bids.

[Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)]

10. Whether he plans to change the level of funding allocated to social care.

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Elizabeth Truss)]

At the autumn Budget 2018, we gave councils an additional £650 million, which could be spent on adult and children’s social care. Since 2017, we have given access to up to £10 billion of dedicated adult social care funding, which has meant above-inflation rises.

[Mike Amesbury]

Eighty-seven people in this country die each day before receiving the care that they need. Does the Minister agree that that figure is shameful and that the Chancellor should use the spring statement to tackle the funding crisis in social care?