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Meeting of the Parliament 23 March 2016

23 Mar 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Residential Care (Self-Funding Payments)
Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights
Neil, Alex SNP Airdrie and Shotts Watch on SPTV

Free personal care is available for everyone aged 65 and over in Scotland who has been assessed by the local authority as needing it. Free nursing care is available for people of any age who have been assessed as requiring nursing care services.

We are committed to ensuring that people on the lowest incomes or with the lowest asset wealth continue to receive financial support from their local authorities for their residential care. Two thirds of people in residential care—around 24,000 people—are supported in that way in Scotland. The Scottish Government and the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly have been clear that people who can afford to pay for their care should continue to do so while we support people who cannot afford to pay for theirs.

In the same item of business

4. Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Con
To ask the Scottish Government whether it complies with its social justice policy objectives for self-funding older people in residential care to pay more th...
The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights (Alex Neil) SNP
Free personal care is available for everyone aged 65 and over in Scotland who has been assessed by the local authority as needing it. Free nursing care is av...
Mary Scanlon Con
I thank David McLaren in the chamber desk team for randomly selecting me for this question, given that I have been complaining about not being selected for t...
The Deputy Presiding Officer Con
And the question is?
Mary Scanlon Con
How can it be socially just when councils pay about £470 a week for a placement in a care home but a self-funding placement costs well over £1,000? As this i...
Alex Neil SNP
Having heard the supplementary, I am absolutely sure that Mary Scanlon was not randomly picked to ask that question because she has campaigned vigorously on ...