Social care: The Prime Minister’s question claims to be fact-checked

At the Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson faced questions from Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer and accusations of “broken promises”.

Their exchange is dominated by social care – and how people will pay for it under the government’s new plan – but also claims about high-speed rail, hospitals and jobs .

We have reviewed some of them.

Conservatives Declaration of 2019 “No one needs care so they’re forced to sell their home to pay for it,” said.

Mr Johnson denied the promise had been broken.

But his social care plan for England doesn’t guarantee someone’s home won’t have to be sold to pay for care – it just doesn’t have to happen in their lifetime.

He points to “a disdain for housing” – if people receive social care at home, or are in a care home and their spouse is living in their home, the value of Their home is not included in their property when calculating how much they should pay for their care.

Mr Johnson also pointed out that people in care homes who don’t have a spouse living in their home can get a deferral of care costs payments so they won’t have to sell their home immediately.

On Monday, Business Secretary Paul Scully told Sky News: “There will be fewer people selling their homes – and hopefully none.”

The government wants to introduce a cap of £86,000 on personal care costs – people will have to pay up to this limit, but not more, over their lifetime.

And Labor has attacked the policy because £86,000 would clearly be a higher proportion of wealth for a poor person than for a richer person.

Labour’s 2019 manifesto proposed a higher lifetime limit, saying: “We will ensure no one faces catastrophic care costs of more than £100,000 for the care they need when they need it. old.”

The latest figures There were an estimated 29,284,000 payroll staff in the UK in October, well above pre-pandemic levels, as were September’s figures.

But unemployment data, using a survey, estimates the total number of people employed between July and September is still about half a million people below pre-pandemic levels.

The 2019 Conservative Manifesto promises no increase in National Insurance rates.

And as we pointed out before, this commitment has been broken – with NI up 1.25 percentage points, in April 2022.

“We will build and finance 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years,” the manifesto said.

But the Department of Health and Social Care has a broad definition of “new hospital,” which can mean:

And most of the 40 projects listed on government website involves the construction of new wings or the refurbishment of existing wings on the site of an existing hospital.

The Nuffield Trust said only two were involved in the construction of a brand new general hospital.

And both of these start before the final election and are planned to replace old hospitals.

We have also previously looked at whether the government has broken its promise on high-speed rail.

HS2 will run to Euston station, in the constituency of Sir Keir’s Holborn and St Pancras.

And in 2015, in his election victory speech, he say we “need to make sure HS2 doesn’t go to Euston in our constituency”.

Shortly after, Sir Keir posted a tweet about him and neighboring MP Tulip Siddiq filing a lawsuit against HS2.

In March 2016 he voted against building a link from London to Birmingham.

Next month, on his Facebook page, he said: “Hitting HS2 is still the top priority”.

And in February 2017, in Parliament, he said: “Building HS2 will have a serious impact on thousands of my members.”

After the PMQ on Wednesday, a Labor official said: “Keir’s position is Old Oak Common[, in west London,] should have been the terminal – but once HS2 was agreed, he and Labor’s manifesto backed it. “

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