{"id":3772,"date":"2024-07-23T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:59:56","slug":"health-and-social-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3772","title":{"rendered":"Health and Social Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lindsay Hoyle\u00a0Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, House of Commons Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call the&nbsp;shadow&nbsp;Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale\u00a0Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I congratulate the&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;and his Front-Bench colleagues on their appointments. I welcome the suggestion that the Government are considering the possibility of a royal commission on social care and intend to address the issue on a cross-party basis, but that will take time. Can the Minister therefore confirm that, as was suggested during the election campaign, the Government will take forward the Dilnot reforms, and in particular that they will introduce a cap on social care costs, as was planned by the previous Government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Andrew Gwynne\u00a0The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was, of course, the right hon. Gentleman\u2019s Government who kicked the can down the road on these issues. They allowed the system to spend the transformation money that had been provided precisely for the purpose of the Dilnot reforms on fixing their broken national health service. He should just be a little bit patient, as we will announce our proposals for social care shortly. He should rest assured that, as I have said to him before, this&nbsp;Labour Government&nbsp;are determined to fix both the broken&nbsp;NHS&nbsp;and the broken social care system that we inherited from 14 years of&nbsp;Tory&nbsp;failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Hoyle\u00a0Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, House of Commons Commission I call the&nbsp;shadow&nbsp;Minister. John Whittingdale\u00a0Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) I congratulate the&nbsp;Minister&nbsp;and his Front-Bench colleagues on their appointments. I welcome the suggestion that the Government are considering the possibility of a royal commission on social care and intend to address the issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}