Transforming Care Programme

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwoo...

I completely agree. That sense of complete injustice and the denial of human rights still exists....

As my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Luciana Berger) said, it is shocking that ...

I do agree, and that is another big subject that I will be pursuing further in the light of the G...

I apologise if the right hon. Gentleman is going to come on to this, but I want to reflect on the...

Again, I entirely share the hon. Lady’s view. I work closely with Sir Stephen Bubb and we have ex...

I normally would not make so many interventions and I hope the right hon. Gentleman is happy to t...

I totally agree. It is, as I said at the start, sobering. In a way, all of us who strongly suppor...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that to achieve transformation in care, investment needs to b...

The hon. Gentleman makes a really important point, and I totally agree. I said at the start that ...

I add my voice to others in the Chamber in saying that I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentl...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention, although it was a bit freaky, because I was abo...

I happen to agree with right hon. Gentleman. Does he expect the Minister to be able to tell us wh...

I agree, and I suspect that the social care system as a whole is under considerable strain. The G...

Once again, I congratulate the right hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) on securing this...

I am sorry I was not here earlier, but I was in a one-hour Westminster Hall debate. I commend the...

Yes, it is very important that we look at what arrangements the devolved countries make for peopl...

Does the right hon. Lady agree that one of the most important aspects of support for the families...

Absolutely. I know from my constituency casework—as, I think, will every MP—that providing a safe...

I am grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for the debate and to the r...

The hon. Lady is making a powerful case. Does she agree that the Care Quality Commission should d...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I also visited St Andrew’s and, when I ret...

I call Ronnie Cowan.

3.15 pm

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker; it was like Hobson’s choice there, but I eventually go...

Let me start by congratulating and thanking the right hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb)...

The fact that the risk of people with learning disabilities dying before the age of 50 is 58 time...

My hon. Friend makes a very valid point. Everybody here this afternoon could not fail to be shock...

I am with the hon. Lady in her criticisms, and in wanting some constructive developments and impr...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her intervention. I absolutely agree. There are some incredible e...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) on securing this really impo...

For the sake of clarity, I should say to the Minister that I cannot limit her time, nor would I t...

That truly is good news, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will try not to go on, as my husband tells me I ...

I appreciate the Minister being willing to write to us after the debate with anything she is not ...

I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I do not want to have concerns about safe disch...

It should be 0%.

Absolutely, it should be 0%. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, that is what we are working towar...

I appreciate that this is quite a complex area, but I have looked at some of the transition times...

My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. NHS England says it is confident of hitting these ...

I do not know whether the Minister will accept this, but I would have thought that everybody invo...

I agree with my right hon. Friend that there is absolutely no point in having arbitrary targets t...

Will the Minister give way?

If I may make a little progress, I will definitely answer the right hon. Gentleman’s questions a ...

rose—

Perhaps I can make a bit of progress and then I will come back to the right hon. Gentleman. We ar...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. On that specific point, she will probably be a...

I am very glad the right hon. Gentleman said that because as part of the Department of Health and...

The right hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) raised the issue of St Andrew’s in Northamp...

We can certainly look at what the hon. Lady suggests. I am pleased that the operational delivery ...

Does my hon. Friend also welcome the fact that from September this year in initial teacher traini...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that, and I am sure that its introduction is in...

I think I can safely say that the debate this afternoon has reflected quality rather than quantit...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Am I allowed to give way, Madam Deputy Speaker? I am coming to the end of my response very soon—<...

Order. Technically, no. The right hon. Gentleman has a strict two minutes to sum up at the end. H...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. My lack of understanding of the rules is clearly shin...

I am very glad to hear that. I was unaware that I had only two minutes, so I am really sorry, but...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is there a means of putting it on record that the Hous...

I understand the hon. Lady’s point and her frustration that the debate on proxy voting, which we ...