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[10 May 2012]
Local MP calls for better support for the UK’s six million unpaid carers

North Oxfordshire MP and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Carers Tony Baldry met television presenter and former carer Fiona Phillips in support of this year’s Carers Week.

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[5 Apr 2012]
Tony Baldry receives letter from Minister regarding Personal Independence Payments and Carers’ Allowance

Please click on the link provided here to see a copy of the full response from Maria Miller MP, Minister for Disabled People: Maria Miller Carers 270312.

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[8 Mar 2012]
North Oxfordshire MP speaks in debate on the future of adult social care

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate, not least as co-chair with Baroness Pitkeathley of the all-party group on carers. The first point I want to make is about the phrase “adult social care”. One of the difficulties in this area is that if we are not careful we develop a secret garden of policy and we all start to descend into shorthand—referring to Dilnot as though everyone understands the five paragraphs that follow from that. I thought that the shadow Secretary of State for Health made a good point when he said that, for many people, this is all about being afraid of getting old. I think that this should be about not adult social care but care of the elderly.

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[17 Jan 2012]
Westminster Hall speech: Care of the Dying

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): I do not intend to refer to the policy of the Director of Public Prosecutions in cases of encouraging or assisting suicide or to the report of the Commission on Assisted Dying because I note that my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Richard Ottaway) has been given a debate by the Backbench Business Committee. Hopefully that debate, in which I suspect that many hon. Members present today will seek to catch Mr Speaker’s eye, will give us the opportunity to make our views known on those matters.

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[10 Jan 2012]
Written Question (Health): Carers: Finance

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much he has allocated to investment in carers services within the baseline allocations for primary care trusts in 2012-13; and how much he plans to allocate in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15. [87960]

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[6 Dec 2011]
Tony Baldry draws Government’s attention to key issues faced by carers

As joint co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Carers, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has submitted evidence to the Government’s engagement exercise on the future of social care.

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[12 Nov 2011]
Baldry encouraged by positive response to suggestion of work academy for care workers in Oxfordshire

Following a letter to Sir Jonathan Michael, Chief Executive of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust regarding the possibility of setting up a work academy specifically for care workers, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has spoken out about his delight from the positive response he has received.

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[28 Jul 2011]
Minister responds to Tony Baldry on funding for carers’ breaks

Following his letter to Paul Burstow MP, Minister of State for Care Services, Tony has now received a response.

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[4 Jul 2011]
Oral Question (Health): Reform of Social Care

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): I think everyone knows where we want to get to on palliative care. We want to provide those people who want it with a much better opportunity to die at home or to die in a hospice while being properly cared for and supported. How does my right hon. Friend see us getting from here to there? What process will be involved, and who is going to drive that process to improve palliative care?

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[15 Jun 2011]
Westminster Hall speech: Caring Responsibilities

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): The whole House owes the hon. Member for Edinburgh East (Sheila Gilmore) a great “thank you” for having secured this debate in carers week. As co-chair with Baroness Pitkeathley, who is in the other place, of the all-party group on carers, I am particularly glad to have the opportunity to take part in this debate.