Labour's free-care plans are a flimsy fantasy says Lamb

Commenting on the Channel 4 news report that revealed the Government is planning to cut the Attendance Allowance budget by £100m to pay for free residential care, Norman Lamb, said:

"By failing to spell out how these policies will be paid for in the future, it's hardly surprising that people will worry there are significant cuts in other services to come. Labour promised to protect disability benefits from any future cuts but it looks like they're going to have to raid budgets to pay for their free care plans."

"The flimsiness of the plans put forward today beggars belief and all we learned is that there is an enormous funding black hole in the Government's plans to reform social care. By failing to spell out how these policies will be paid for in the future, it's hardly surprising that people will worry there are significant cuts in other services to come. Instead of dreaming up fantasy proposals to desperately try and appeal to the electorate, we should be sitting down together across parties and working out how we can create an affordable social care system for the future."