Yvette Cooper: “Bush's actions were utterly abhorrent, and my thoughts remain with all the bereaved families in Hull who were so badly…”

In the spending review, we allocated for the first time a multi-year £6.75bn estate safety fund.

We will deliver the first-ever legally-binding fair pay agreement for care workers with minimum standards of pay and conditions across every employer.

On behalf of the government, I want to issue a profound apology to them.

I’m sorry for the unthinkable pain caused by those historic practices, because what happened to those parents should never have happened and we need to ensure it can never happen again.