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The Accounts Commission has reported a £450 million gap in funding for social care in 2014. Fast forward a year, and the gap is a staggering £562 million. That is simply not sustainable, and it has a devastating effect on vulnerable people and their families. Overnight support is being removed from disabled people, respite care is being slashed and care packages for older people are simply not available, leading to a spike in delayed discharge. The First Minister said earlier that he stood with disabled people. Does he not think that that is the height of hypocrisy, when it is his Government that is slashing their care packages?