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HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesI agree with my hon. Friend. It is great to hear that the NHS will get what it needs, but what about the social care sector? We know, as my hon. Friend just said, that many care…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesThat is a very good question, and we should ask it in addition to the questions that I will ask, because the independent and voluntary sector is vital in our communities and in…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We will need certainty about those things when we look at the coronavirus emergency Bill, which we will do shortly, but this lands on local…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Greater Manchester Spatial Framework and the Green BeltI absolutely agree. That is particularly relevant for Chat Moss because, for those who do not know it, large parts of the moss were destroyed, or nearly destroyed, by peat…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesI would just like to ask a further question on the protective equipment that we have just talked about. I am glad to hear that masks, hand sanitiser and any of the things that are…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesVery much so. I am following all the social media input from my constituents, and I am glad to see that people are very keen to help. However, we must be careful, because we are…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Local Government Responsibilities: Public ServicesI thank the right hon. Member for that intervention. I think most of us are concerned in our constituencies to ensure that we have enough people to help out, but do not have the…18 Mar 2020HANSARD Greater Manchester Spatial Framework and the Green BeltIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Nokes. I congratulate the hon. Member for Bury North (James Daly) on securing this important and timely debate. According to…18 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsPersonal protective equipment can be as important in social care settings as it is in hospital or GP settings, but care staff report having to buy their own gloves and one care…10 Mar 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere are already 120,000 vacancies in the care workforce and we now face the prospect of large numbers of care staff having to self-isolate because of coronavirus. With the NHS…10 Mar 2020HANSARD Eating Disorders Awareness WeekCould I remind the Minister of another two? I think that a number of us raised the issue of training, and I asked whether she would be a champion of improving training.05 Mar 2020HANSARD Eating Disorders Awareness WeekWe have a few moments left, so I refer the Minister back to the point I raised about relapse. We are largely talking about adults, and there is a mismatch between the average…05 Mar 2020HANSARD Eating Disorders Awareness WeekThere is also the question about when waiting time targets will be introduced for adult eating disorder services.05 Mar 2020HANSARD Eating Disorders Awareness WeekIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate with you in the Chair, Mr Rosindell. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Knowsley (Sir George Howarth) on securing this…05 Mar 2020HANSARD Social CareI do not recall that I ever said that, but there is a key point in what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Our recollection is that it was not the Labour party that labelled the…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareIndeed I do. I am looking forward to the establishment of the new all-party group on young carers, but it is tragic, in a way, that we have to meet in new all-party groups to try…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareThe right hon. Member knows that I raised with him on the day of the first Queen’s Speech, in October last year, the need for us to set up cross-party talks. He has done nothing…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social Careindicated dissent .25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareI beg to move, That this House notes that almost ten years of Government cuts to council budgets have resulted in a social care funding crisis which means 1.5 million older people…25 Feb 2020HANSARD Social CareI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The only way that we will see real change is if the Government put in funding to provide the housing and support needed for those people…25 Feb 2020