Local Authority Social Care Budgets

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 November 2016.

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Photo of Helen Jones Helen Jones Chair, Petitions Committee, Chair, Petitions Committee 12:00, 15 November 2016

The Cheshire and Merseyside sustainability and transformation plan relies heavily on more care in the community. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this will not work while local authority social care is being cut to the bone, because it will merely send people back to their own homes, where their health will deteriorate?