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Bridgend were patches are afraid it is to ensure that they refldct and | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
increases in the cost of living they are operated angularly aligned | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
with the consumer prices Index CPI figure, this is the segment of the | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Department for Work and Pensions users to upgrade and Social Security | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
disability benefits and is hn keeping with other public sdrvice | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
schemes. Our approach ensurds consistency with the measurds of | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
inflation used by the bank of England, were patches will decrease | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
when the annual CPI figures next increases. The government ddserves | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
credit for shunning the Armdd Forces covenant and law. I'm sure the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
entire house endorses the sdcretary to said in the latest report, we | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
have a duty to ensure our sdrvicemen and women are treated fairlx. In | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
days, his department published a written statement entitled war | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
pension scheme operated 2016. There is no upgrading. What pensions have | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
been frozen for two years. But the Minister agree that what pensions | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
should be treated the same `s someone like me, who is in receipt | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
of a state pension and as a result of the triple block, is guaranteed | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
to increase every year? And that the defence secretary said, we have a | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
duty to ensure our servicemdn and women are treated fairly and no more | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
so than those who have been injured in serving our country. It hs | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
important to make clear that despite its name, and what a simple and | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
pension is not a state penshon, it is a form of compensation for | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
disablement and or injuries. Cost by service to the country, it hs | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
tax-free, it is payable in `ddition to state retirement pension, | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
pavements are set at a highdr rate than similar disability bendfits and | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
it is also the case that most were pensioners at retirement agd will be | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
in receipt of both pensions. The war pension scheme and close related to | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
employment, so the angel upgrading so should be related to earnings | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
inflation and not price inflation. With the Minister to the Hotse what | :02:36. | :02:36. | |
would be the cost to the trdasury to would be the cost to the trdasury to | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
think the war pension schemd to earnings and not impatient? Another | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
head, without calculation to answer the question, I am not award the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
treasury has done so. The principles should be clear here, under the | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
compensation scheme and the war pension screen the Mets gamd, they | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
are assessed on the level of visibility, based on the assessment | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
they are compensated for thdir damned loss of earnings and civilian | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
employment. After that, the principle is that the return of | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
purchasing power of the age,old patent should be maintained and it | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
is therefore indexed to the consumer Price Index, which is the index | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
applied by the DWP to all dhsability pensions. Patches are losing value, | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
in comparison to military and civilian. -- pensions. It is | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
inexplicable that a disabled comp rats cannot have -- comrades, and of | :03:44. | :03:56. | |
backside, Terry this case... We are not all added together the triple | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
pension. Members of the Armdd Forces pension. Members of the Armdd Forces | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
will benefit from the tripld block. I do think there are broader issues | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
to be considered here, one hs that maintaining parity with Sochal | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Security disability benefits is in principle the right thing to do | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Secondly, that is the affordability issue as a government, as a nation | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
also we have to stick with the long-term economic plan and we have | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
to continue to live within our means. Surprised there are no | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
conservatives wanting to defeat -- arriving. To defend our servicemen, | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
prepare to go along to me a break, but when it comes to it the Minister | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
gave it a way. He said the word affordability. These are people who | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
we must afford to uphold thd benefits and pensions, otherwise we | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
are not honouring the memorx of the people who have died and served our | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
country soap well in the past. - soap well. We do. They are not | :05:20. | :05:31. | |
disadvantaged. Can a ministdr to me what the position is... Of the world | :05:32. | :05:47. | |
Windows -- war widows, who `re in the same position,... Candid | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
minister assured me that thd wonderful change brought in where | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
widows can marry again without losing pensions, is affected in any | :05:58. | :06:11. | |
way or will remain as it is now And change was introduced, as the 1st of | :06:12. | :06:24. | |
April of last year that those who are up with old and had a w`r widows | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
pension can keep that pension with are not they enter into a stbsequent | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
marriage, but as regards cases that fall before that cutoff point, and | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
has been the policy of succdssive governments that changes or | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
improvements to all public service pension schemes should not be | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
applied retrospectively, so there are no plans to reinstate w`r widows | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
pensions where widows who'vd read marry between 1973 and 2005. Those | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
who have already submitted the pension due to breathe marrhage | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
cannot thought to have their attention to restore for life. - | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
remarriage. On Saturday, 210 gets ago, Lord Nelson was put in the | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
crypt at St Paul's and said that when he died, he would have lack of | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
progress in grades on his hdart We now have 13. -- frigates. Does the | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Minister said that he will be disappointed but that it will we | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
ordered the new forgets to replace the ones that are ageing? I think | :07:34. | :07:47. | |
that is another question. M`naging provide effective as a local | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
responsibility. I cannot colment on the finances of individual | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
providers, but Care Quality Commission has oversight of the | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
larger providers. I'll supply a local authorities would wonders if | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
one of the businesses were to fail an activity to cease allowing time | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
for plans to be implemented. The Department of Health will | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
co-ordinate any national response. I thank him for his response, but | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
disappointment that cannot be more reassuring for the follow-up double | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
result from the collapse of major and small providers in the care | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
industry. The problem is wider than four stages give it the rishng of | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
care that is postponement of the care cap and the ability of local | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
authorities to increase these rising cost and a man. Affected 31,000 for | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
a leave patients who had to be. . Surely the Minister recognises this | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
and then needs to be about ` government strategy to ensure the | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
financial sustainability of the sector and it with the huge scale of | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
causes that what happen unldss funding problems are addressed. The | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
collapse of Southern Cross hnto 2011 but the main reason why the less | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
government to oversee government oversight responsibilities which | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
will give early warnings of any failures of any large... Ophnion is | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
worth noting that the LGA bdlieves 95% of local authorities have | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
contingency plans ready to implement. The former health | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
minister called for a cross party commission to review future funding | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
for helping care services in this country. With the Minister `gree | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
that we have to start talking now honestly and openly about what | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
standards of help that people can expect, now and in the future, and | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
the idea that a commission to look in that and, with a strong | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
recommendations tend to be ` rather good idea? Can he comment on whether | :10:09. | :10:20. | |
he agrees? The idea of the commission has been discussdd in | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
number of times in this house that I have think is coming up on the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
debate on Thursday. I will save now that the government and the spending | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
review is enabling local authorities to increase their preset by 2% and | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
increasing their contribution to the Better Care fund by 1.5 the imp | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
which will see a real incre`se in the resources available for adult | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
social care. -- 1.5 billion. When he agreed that in certain circtmstances | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
of provide a fair, what is really important that residents residents | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
maintaining their existing homes and that in fact during the Southern | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
cross incident, that was achieved in the majority of cases and is often | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
possible to separate the gohng concern basis of individual homes | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
and commercial situation of the providers at home? I fully `gree | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
residence and the homes, not there residence and the homes, not there | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
to prop up a provider. That is a entirely different matter. Hn the | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
event that Southern Cross the date go, very few homes close as a result | :11:42. | :11:53. | |
of that at the time. Can I `sk if the Minister is working with the | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
Department of Health to enstre the new financial instrument whdre an | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
individual can invest in a single room and a care home for a | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
guaranteed rent, protected tser of that from as much as it provides any | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
yield for the investor, and then student sector shown that this is a | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
mixed result. Students can be run elsewhere, elderly care presidents | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
have nowhere else to go, and their protection could be affected if | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
investors have to move out puickly. I cannot see what the questhon is | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
coming from. The instrument that my friend, I am not fully briefed on | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
this matter. I'll have to rdsearch it and get back to her. Does the | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
Minister agree that the four seasons, which is the subject of the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
question is only one of the groups facing a financial crisis? Ht is | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
estimated that by 2020, there will be a funding gap of three Mhlken | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
pounds for the residential care sector and social care groups want | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
the Chancellor of this before the item statement. -- 3 million. At the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
government any long-term pl`n for funding and improving social care or | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
is a committed to solutions and for saying it's a matter local | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
authorities? It is a matter for local authorities, but the | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
government and he spent the review are making available in othdr ? .5 | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
billion for the Better Care fund and allow local authorities to raise | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
special preset of 2%. I think the oversight divisions of CTC cover | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
some 45 providers which covdr some 20% of the market, it is intended | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
that will give early warning to local authorities of a likely | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
collapse. The minister confhrmed that anybody who has to card package | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
funded by local authority is entitled to alternative provision, | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
anybody who is a self-funded and under the law is entitled to only | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
advice, if the government t`king set for local authorities to brhng | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
ensure that people and their families are aware of exactly what | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
they are and how to meet with the event that the care home were too | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
close? As up to local authorities to have contingency in place. @s I | :14:36. | :14:45. | |
said, the local government `uthority had indicated that 95% of local | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
authorities have their plans in place. The demise of the care home | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
residents of the problems f`ced by southern cross were dealt would vary | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
significantly by the rest of the care home sector, activation of the | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
happening was a robust condhtion. Can the Minister reassure us that | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
the care home sector is currently an equally robust condition? | :15:13. | :15:22. |