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Shortage Of Care Homes

EDM number 9 in 2003-04, proposed by Tim Yeo on 26/11/2003.

That this house deplores the comments made by the honourable Member for South Thanet, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health in 'This Caring Business' stating that there is no national crisis in the sector; calls on the Government to recognise the serious crisis in the care home sector which has suffered the loss of over 70,000 long-term care places since 1997 and 13,400 elderly care places in the 15 months to April according to the most recent figures from the independent healthcare analysts Laing and Buisson; notes with concern that the number of people receiving domiciliary care has fallen by almost 100,000 since 1997; is gravely alarmed at the current rate of care home closures which force around 10,000 people from their homes every year and, if the Government's 1997 estimate of the associate death rate is correct, means that as many as 1,000 people may die annually as a direct result of these home closures; recognises that as a result of the projected growth in demand and the rate of decline in availability of care, overall demand for care home places will outstrip supply by 2005; deplores the Government's over-prescriptive, expensive and bureaucratic regulation which has greatly exacerbated the crisis in the care home sector and has driven many care home closures; and calls on the Government to take meaningful action to significantly reduce the current rate of care home closures and combat the decline in the availability of domiciliary care rather than simply and disingenuously disregard the current crisis.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Tim Yeo26/11/2003South SuffolkConservativeProposed
John Taylor26/11/2003SolihullConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley26/11/2003Worthing WestConservativeSigned
John Baron26/11/2003BillericayConservativeSigned
Gregory Barker26/11/2003Bexhill & BattleConservativeSigned
Chris Grayling26/11/2003Epsom & EwellConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant26/11/2003LichfieldConservativeSigned
Alan Duncan26/11/2003Rutland & MeltonConservativeSigned
Simon Burns26/11/2003West ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Stephen O'Brien26/11/2003EddisburyConservativeSigned
Andrew Mitchell26/11/2003Sutton ColdfieldConservativeSigned
Mark Hoban26/11/2003FarehamConservativeSigned
Andrew Lansley26/11/2003South CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Oliver Letwin26/11/2003West DorsetConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis26/11/2003New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Peter Luff26/11/2003Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Andrew Murrison26/11/2003WestburyConservativeSigned
Tim Loughton26/11/2003East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeSigned
Anne McIntosh26/11/2003Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
Peter Ainsworth27/11/2003East SurreyConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton27/11/2003CongletonConservativeSigned
David Wilshire27/11/2003SpelthorneConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson27/11/2003UpminsterConservativeSigned
Nigel Waterson27/11/2003EastbourneConservativeSigned
Simon Thomas27/11/2003CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Tony Baldry27/11/2003BanburyConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond27/11/2003Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Edward Garnier27/11/2003HarboroughConservativeSigned
Mark Francois27/11/2003RayleighConservativeSigned
Mark Field27/11/2003Cities of London & WestminsterConservativeSigned
Peter Duncan27/11/2003Galloway & Upper NithsdaleConservativeSigned
Patrick Mercer27/11/2003NewarkConservativeSigned
Jacqui Lait27/11/2003BeckenhamConservativeSigned
John Randall27/11/2003UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Jonathan Djanogly01/12/2003HuntingdonConservativeSigned
Derek Conway01/12/2003Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Marion Roe01/12/2003BroxbourneConservativeSigned
Greg Knight01/12/2003East YorkshireConservativeSigned
Robert Key02/12/2003SalisburyConservativeSigned
Malcolm Moss02/12/2003North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
James Gray02/12/2003North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Andrew Hunter02/12/2003BasingstokeIndependent ConservativeSigned
David Atkinson03/12/2003Bournemouth EastConservativeSigned
Bill Wiggin03/12/2003LeominsterConservativeSigned
David Amess03/12/2003Southend WestConservativeSigned
Gregory Campbell03/12/2003East LondonderryDUPSigned
Julian Brazier03/12/2003CanterburyConservativeSigned
Nick Hawkins03/12/2003Surrey HeathConservativeSigned
Andrew Rosindell04/12/2003RomfordConservativeSigned
Bob Spink04/12/2003Castle PointConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs04/12/2003East AntrimUUPSigned
Caroline Spelman08/12/2003MeridenConservativeSigned
Howard Flight09/12/2003Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Oliver Heald10/12/2003North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
Sydney Chapman17/12/2003Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
Paul Goodman18/12/2003WycombeConservativeSigned
Andrew Selous18/12/2003South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Jonathan Sayeed05/01/2004Mid BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Adrian Flook05/01/2004TauntonConservativeSigned
David Maclean07/01/2004Penrith & The BorderConservativeSigned
Cheryl Gillan07/01/2004Chesham & AmershamConservativeSigned
Boris Johnson13/01/2004HenleyConservativeSigned
John Bercow20/01/2004BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Hugo Swire26/01/2004East DevonConservativeSigned
Julie Kirkbride27/01/2004BromsgroveConservativeSigned
John Whittingdale05/02/2004Maldon & East ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Theresa May09/02/2004MaidenheadConservativeSigned
George Osborne10/02/2004TattonConservativeSigned
Quentin Davies23/02/2004Grantham & StamfordConservativeSigned
Eric Pickles11/03/2004Brentwood & OngarConservativeSigned
Charles Hendry05/05/2004WealdenConservativeSigned
Nigel Evans01/11/2004Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned

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