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HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceWe are grateful to international workers coming to support us in social care and improving supply, but we have to get the balance right between international recruitment and our…05 Mar 2024HANSARDSocial CareWe very much want everybody who needs care to get it and everyone who is eligible for financial support should get it. That, of course, is assessed by local authorities. We are…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceI work closely with colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions on the recruitment of people looking for jobs in social care, and I will raise that point with my colleague…05 Mar 2024HANSARDAdult Social Care WorkforceI am grateful to international care workers who have come to the UK to look after loved ones. Their work has contributed to reducing vacancies and increasing the supply of social…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very sorry to hear about what happened to the hon. Gentleman’s constituent. I send my condolences to her family and loved ones. Clearly, it is very important that discharge…05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would be very happy to meet my right hon. Friends to discuss those concerns.05 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the hon. Lady will have heard me say earlier, we are grateful to international care workers who come to care for our loved ones in this country. We need to get the balance…05 Mar 2024HANSARD Young Adults with Spinal InjuriesI thank the hon. Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) for securing this debate and for her powerful speech telling us about Tom Lazarides’s experience, his tragic…29 Feb 2024HANSARD Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment PracticesI am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) for opening the debate and setting out some of the challenges we face in international recruitment…31 Jan 2024HANSARD Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment PracticesI think it is probably helpful if I move on, rather than our having some sort of back and forth. I turn to the question in hand, which is specifically to do with international…31 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very sorry to hear of the experience of that specific constituent. Because of challenges that the NHS faces, particularly our urgent and emergency care services, almost a…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening to my answer; in fact, he was reading aloud. Our urgent and emergency care plan is working. It is reducing rates in A&E, and…23 Jan 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareThe hon. Member makes an important point. The safety of our staff in the national health service is important, including those in urgent and emergency care departments, as well as…23 Jan 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareI thank my hon. Friend for his invitation. He has been a tireless campaigner on this issue on behalf of his constituents. The future of healthcare is about getting people the care…23 Jan 2024HANSARDHospital Discharge: Social CareMy hon. Friend is right. I know how much work he did when he had oversight of urgent and emergency care services, which included his contribution to our urgent and emergency care…23 Jan 2024HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareAlmost a year ago, we published our urgent and emergency care recovery plan. The NHS has already halved the waiting times for category 2 ambulances and brought down waits in A&E.…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAdult Social CareWe have a plan for the social care workforce, and it is working. The social care workforce increased by over 20,000 last year, and it is still going up. But I will take no…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAdult Social CareI am actually really shocked by the way the hon. Member referred to the care workforce, with terms like “It is all blah”—very shocking. I am determined that care workers should…23 Jan 2024HANSARDAdult Social CareCare is a skilled profession, and I want care workers to get the support and recognition they deserve. This month, we took the next step in our ambitious care workforce reforms,…23 Jan 2024HANSARDHospital Discharge: Social CareOne reason we distributed discharge funding back in April last year was to give more advance notice to organisations, so that they could put in place what is needed to speed up…23 Jan 2024