Care and Support

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her comments and questions. While she levelled a number ...

My Lords, before we get into the session where all Peers can contribute, I remind noble Lords tha...

My Lords, I must briefly declare an interest. I am a 24-hour social care service user, and long m...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness for all the work that she has done in this area, pa...

My Lords, I emphasise the extraordinary importance of all-party consensus on this matter. Without...

My Lords, I fully agree with the noble Lord about the need for cross-party consensus. If we are t...

My Lords, I am a glass half-full sort of person, so I heartily welcome the White Paper and the dr...

My Lords, my provisional understanding —and I stress that—is that pre-legislative scrutiny will b...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of Help the Hospices. I welcome both the extra money ...

My Lords, the short answer to my noble friend is that we need to look in detail at the funding im...

My Lords, may I ask the Minister two quick questions about domiciliary care? First, do the Govern...

The noble Lord is quite right; there is huge concern about the sometimes tick-box attitude to dom...

My Lords, I congratulate the Minister, and pass these congratulations on to his right honourable ...

First, I thank the noble Lord for all that he did as a member of the triumvirate of the Dilnot co...

I welcome my noble friend’s Statement, but does he accept that there is still a significant chall...

I agree with my noble friend. Only last week, I talked to people at the Norwich and Norfolk Unive...

My Lords, I am very happy to welcome the ministerial Statement as one of the first distant tweets...

I am grateful to the noble Lord and thank him for all his work in this area over the years. Howev...

Can I draw the Minister’s attention to the characteristics of the very old? Time speeds up when y...

I pay tribute to the noble Baroness for all her work on behalf of the elderly. Of course she is r...

I wonder if—