Davey on PM’s virtual summit: only way to achieve peace is to strengthen Ukraine’s hand by seizing frozen Russian assets NHS England: Same urgency must now be shown for social care SNP RAAC response non-existent compared to England Rennie responds to Gilruth Dundee University comments Davey on PM’s virtual summit: only way to achieve peace […]
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13 March 2025 – today’s press releases
Davey on PM speech: “we’ll never fix the NHS unless we fix social care” NHS England: welcome steps but won’t matter unless Streeting “stops ignoring the elephant in the room” Findlay should say if he agrees with Badenoch on maternity pay Davey on PM speech: “we’ll never fix the NHS unless we fix social care” […]
11 March 2025 – today’s Scottish press releases
Jardine calls for doubling of maternity pay Cole-Hamilton: We cannot fix A&E waits without fixing social care Carmichael calls for government response following shipping collision 1,065 drugs deaths last year Vacancies in majority of care homes and care at home services Rennie responds to Dundee University news Jardine calls for doubling of maternity pay Liberal […]
1-2 February 2025 – the weekend’s press releases
Davey: Chancellor must order economic forecasts on UK-EU customs union ahead of Spring Statement Cooper ruling out youth mobility scheme is “short-sighted and bitter blow to young people” Davey: PM must “drop his red line” on Customs Union as he meets EU leaders Scottish Liberal Democrats table amendment to erase SNP power grab “for good” […]
25-26 January 2025 – the weekend’s press releases
NHS: “bonfire” of targets shows shocking lack of ambition for patients Over 500 infrastructure incidents at delayed hospitals last year which now are “hanging by a thread” Councils paying £24,000 more a year per pensioner in nursing costs as Lib Dems call on govt to reverse “foolish” NICs hike Reeves on Kuenssberg: Chancellor’s approach to […]
23 January 2025 – today’s press releases
Government ruling out customs scheme with EU is an “act of economic negligence” NHS stats: government must convene COBRA amid surge in norovirus cases Lib Dems reveal private company overseeing hundreds of sewage dumps Scot Lib Dems push for prison suicide and fatal accident inquiry reform Cole-Hamilton comments on scrapping of doomed social care centralisation […]
22 January 2025 – today’s press releases
Borrowing figures: Another sign the Chancellor’s Budget has not worked OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise farmers for practically no benefit Cole-Hamilton: SNP must scrap social care power grab now OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise Welsh farmers for practically no benefit OBR Report: Farm tax will penalise farmers and crofters for little benefit to […]
14 January 2025 – the overnight press release
Social Care: Ministers need to “get their act together” and complete review by end of the year Responding to social sector leaders saying that social care can “ill afford” to wait three years for final decisions on reform, Liberal Democrat Care and Carers spokesperson Alison Bennett MP said: It is blindingly obvious that social care […]
8 January 2025 – today’s press releases
Children’s Wellbeing Bill: Conservatives using victims as “political football” Davey: Adult Social Care Commission must be completed within one year MP Calls for Greater Support for Off-Grid Homes Children’s Wellbeing Bill: Conservatives using victims as “political football” Commenting on the Conservative amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Munira Wilson […]
Lib Dems call for faster action on social care in England
Senior Liberal Democrats have expressed concern that the Labour Government has finally done something about social care, but that Louise Casey’s review will not report until 2028. This has all the hallmarks of this crucial issue being kicked into the long grass, with potential for it to be lost in even deeper foliage beyond then. […]