13/12/06
Q: Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat, Sutton & Cheam)
A: Ivan Lewis (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health)
House of Commons
Written answer
13 December 2006
Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 30 November 2006, Official Report, column 910W, on adult social care, if she will make it her policy to make explicit in the national minimum care standards for care homes Government advice that people need to drink six to eight glasses of fluid every day. [105275]
Ivan Lewis: The review of the national minimum standards is still ongoing and will be subject to public consultation in due course.
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