Part of Care Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 4:45 pm ar 16 Ionawr 2014.
Norman Lamb
The Minister of State, Department of Health
4:45,
16 Ionawr 2014
The loan is universal for anyone who may be forced to sell their home to pay for care. I also find the principle of having a threshold over which the loan would not be available to be remarkable, because, clearly, if someone has £100,000 in the bank, they are not in a position in which they would be forced to sell their home. Does the hon. Lady believe that someone with £100,000, or indeed £1 million, in the bank should be entitled to a loan? That is what her Amendment would provide for.
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