{"id":41139,"date":"2023-06-08T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/08\/davey-calls-for-financial-help-for-carers-not-just-tributes\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:39:00","slug":"davey-calls-for-financial-help-for-carers-not-just-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=41139","title":{"rendered":"Davey calls for financial help for carers &#8211; not just tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">At PMQs, the Lib Dem leader raised the case of Karen who looks after her husband who has Parkinson&#8217;s Disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ed Davey said family carers saved the government more money than the entire NHS budget, and said they needed more financial and practical support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oliver Dowden, standing in for Rishi Sunak, responded by listing the government funding schemes for carers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-politics-65830963\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Dowden and Rayner clash at PMQs over Covid inquiry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65833069?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] At PMQs, the Lib Dem leader raised the case of Karen who looks after her husband who has Parkinson&#8217;s Disease. Ed Davey said family carers saved the government more &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}