Social Care (Eligibility Criteria)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 26 April 2011.

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Photo of Linda Riordan Linda Riordan Labour, Halifax 2:30, 26 April 2011

Is the Minister aware that according to a recent survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, 19 local authorities including my own, Calderdale, have had to raise the eligibility criteria for social care because of the cuts that they have received from the Government? Does he stand by his statement of 21 October that there is

“no justification for local authorities to slash and burn or for local authorities to tighten eligibility”?