Care Bill [HL]

My Lords, I declare an interest as a chair of a NHS foundation trust and as a consultant and trai...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 76ZZA and 76ZAA in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hu...

My Lords, I wish to register my support for the proposals in some of these amendments. The integr...

My Lords, the need for the specialist staff referred to by the noble Lord clearly lies behind the...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate and will do so briefly. We need to allow the...

I endorse what the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth, has just said because I am firmly of the belief ...

My Lords, this has been a very useful debate and in addressing this group of amendments, it might...

I do not quite see the logic of that, because in a sense NHS England has a vested interest in ens...

Ministers most certainly are willing and able to answer questions about what NHS England is doing...

On the question of the surveillance system that the Minister just referred to, what about the pro...

My Lords, it really is for the CQC to determine the frequency of its own inspections.

It will not work.

It is not for Ministers to do that. I say that with great respect to the noble Lord. In saying th...

Perhaps I may ask for clarification on one further point relating to complaints. Amendment 76ZZA ...

I completely understand the noble Lord’s point. He will remember that in the registration require...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging and well informed debate. It has focused on anxieties abou...

Moved by

Lord Best

77B: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Fund...

My Lords, we now come to the beginning of the Bill and the very important Part 1, sensibly postpo...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support this amendment as a mere vice-president of the Local Governme...

My Lords, I rise briefly as yet another mere vice-president of the Local Government Association t...

My Lords, I support this amendment in particular. I declare an interest as the president of Menca...

My Lords, I shall refer to the report of the Public Service and Demographic Change Committee. Mem...

My Lords, I had thought that I would not respond to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Best. H...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Best, is right in his analysis. He is pointing towards a financial...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice president of the Local Government Association and as a ...

I know very little about local government other than that I work with them in the health sector, ...

My noble friend is right to draw attention, as many of your Lordships already have, to the need t...

My Lords, I do agree with the spirit of this amendment. It is critical that care and support gene...

Before the noble Earl moves on, perhaps he can answer this question. Is he saying that the statis...

The statistics that the Government relied upon were official statistics and, I think, were exactl...

My question was not about the purpose of the pooling, which I think we all share. My question was...

The details of the payment-by-results system will be worked through. We are working with our part...

My Lords, I am deeply grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken: to the noble Lord, Lord Bichar...

Yes!

Oh, not again! I do apologise. How many times has this happened to the noble Lord?

My Lords, I hope to be of some utility, but I would not claim to be utilitarian.

I deeply apologise, and not for the first time, to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, one of the most ...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

78: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I shall speak also to my Amendments 78D and 88L. I am also supportive of Amendment 79, ...

My Lords, I support the amendment and in particular speak to my own Amendment 78ZA, which seeks t...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 78A and 78B, which stand in my name and that of the noble L...

My Lords, I am very sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Warner, is not in his seat. He tabled Amendme...

My Lords—

My Lords, I apologise for not being able to bound in as soon as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, sat do...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell. I was so eager to follow the noble Ba...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 78E, 87K and 88J, which are in my name. They raise the issu...

My Lords, today is bowel awareness day. I have been chairing a reception for bowel care this afte...

My Lords, I add my support to Amendment 78ZA, to which my name is also attached. The noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 78ZA. Six years of serving on the Equality and Human Rights Commiss...

My Lords, the well-being principle in Clause 1 was devised on the basis of the Law Commission’s r...

Before the Minister sits down, I would just like to ask him: does he not really want to get thing...

I agree that dignity is a very important concept, which is why we expressly amended the Bill to i...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that response. I hope that he will reflect a little o...