Liz Kendall MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Care and Older People, commenting on dementia care, said:

“If David Cameron was serious about improving the quality of dementia care, he would not have cut council budgets for older people’s social care to the bone.

"And if Jeremy Hunt was serious about improving transparency, he would be publishing how many 15 minute home visits there are in each area, and how many people with dementia have unnecessarily ended up in hospital or having to go into a care home because they can’t get the help they need to stay living in their own homes.

"Dementia is indeed one of the biggest challenges facing this country - but under David Cameron’s watch care for people with dementia is getting worse not better.”