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HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Let me say to the Secretary of State that if he will not listen to the Chair of the Committee, he should listen to the leaders of his party’s…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI am not saying that is not true; the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s own report says it is not true.24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingIf the hon. Gentleman is going to apologise for the cuts he has forced on our local communities, I will give way to him.24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI remind the hon. Gentleman that the 2017 Labour manifesto said that we would put money back into our public services, something that he has failed to do in the almost three years…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingIt shows precisely the short-sighted way that the Government have approached funding local government. The fact that they passed on public health budgets to local government was,…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingAs my hon. Friend will hear as I develop my argument, that is not just a one-off. It is happening across England and it is unfair. The Tories do not get that blatant unfairness,…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI give way to my hon. Friend, who will express loudly the cuts to her area.24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI will give way to the right hon. Gentleman in a second, if I can answer my hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Gloria De Piero) first. It is worse than that, because those are…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingThe right hon. Gentleman has made the case for me. Let me dumb it down for him—I do not wish to appear condescending, but it really is as simple as this: there has always been a…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingOf course, individuals and families are taking the hit from all the cuts, and they are having to step in.24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingLet me answer the right hon. Member for Wokingham (John Redwood) first. We have to have a sensible discussion about how we are going to fund social care. Yes, it is about money,…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown) and then I need to make progress.24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Politics is a question of priorities. I often remember the 2017 Budget, when the Government put forward measures to cut the bank levy by £5…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingOf course, I would be very happy to look at any suggestion. My hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) leads on social care issues for the Labour…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI will give way later on, but I want to make some progress. The Prime Minister has said that austerity has ended—she said it in her conference speech last October—but instead of…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingThe Minister says it went up, but actually it confirmed what many of us feared, because under this Government there will never be an end to the pain of austerity. Nothing has…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingThe hon. Lady makes the case that in rural areas there are greater costs to providing services. In some cases, that is correct, but it is a minority of cases. All the evidence,…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We need to grow that cake and the distribution of resources has to follow need. If we are serious about tackling health inequalities, if we…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The treatment of the great city of Birmingham has been appalling. The people of Birmingham deserve the resources they need to have decent…24 Apr 2019HANSARDLocal Government and Social Care FundingI will give way to another great Birmingham MP.24 Apr 2019