Clause 12 - Free provision of certain community care services
Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
In giving the official Opposition spokesman an answer to that question, my hon. Friend might recall that it was a Conservative Government, in their standard spending assessment methodology, who made an assumption about how much local authorities would recoup through charges for services, which drove many local authorities to introduce charges in the first place. Although that is no longer explicit in the SSA methodology, it exists in practice.