Care Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support Amendments 88M and 92ZZM in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Low of Dalston, ...

My Lords, I strongly support this group of amendments. The consolidation of the care and support ...

My Lords, I do not have a great deal further to add on this issue, given that we fully supported ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Low and Lord Touhig, for bringing forward these amendment...

In Clause 27 it appears that it is only the local authority that has the power to ask for there t...

I shall do my best to answer my noble friend in a moment or two, but I am aware that I did not an...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken in support of these amendments. I am also gr...

Moved by

Baroness Grey-Thompson

88Q: Clause 13, page 12, line 17, leave out subsectio...

My Lords, Amendment 88Q relates to the eligibility for social care. This is a probing amendment i...

My Lords, I am glad to support Amendment 88Q, put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thomps...

My Lords, I strongly support this amendment. If the Government do not agree with the intention be...

My Lords, I, too, am delighted that these amendments have given us the opportunity to debate the ...

My Lords, the Minister knows perfectly well where I stand because I already talked about eligibil...

My Lords, I support Amendment 88Q, which was so powerfully moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Grey...

My Lords, I would have added my name to this amendment because it is excellent and necessary. I, ...

There are vast numbers of older people—for whom this Bill is designed, in terms of quantity—who w...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in the debate on Amendment 88Q but I feel under some obligation...

How is it that the commission found that people with disabilities and elderly people helped to ma...

I do not think we want to have a debate on our report, but I suggest that the noble Lord reads Ch...

I would not necessarily put working-age people at the top of the list. I talked about disabled pe...

I do not think that we said that they should fund the deficit. We said how they should be treated...

My Lords, I rise to make two brief points. First, this argument is not really about eligibility c...

My Lords, my Amendments 88R and 88S take us back to the amendments which I moved last week on eli...

My Lords, this has been an excellent and very important debate and I thank all noble Lords who ha...

As far as the eligibility criteria are concerned there is another indicator, which I have not hea...

My noble friend raises an important point, and I will take her suggestion away with me. As I ment...

Have the Government looked at the Deloitte economic modelling, which shows that support for moder...

I know that my officials have looked closely at that modelling. I have not yet had an opportunity...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate, and also the Minister for hi...

Moved by

Baroness Pitkeathley

89A: Clause 14, page 12, line 35, at end insert—

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My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 89B as well as Amendment 89A, as they are both amendments ...

My Lords, I rise briefly—I fear that that will be the last time that I will use the word “briefly...

In the case that the noble Lord has just mentioned, would there be any question of the lady conce...

That could arise, I suppose, but it has not arisen in this case. I am not even sure—it is very di...

I shall speak to Amendments 89BA and 92ZZM. I very much welcomed the comments of the Minister at ...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. On these Benches one of our great hopes for...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendment of my noble friend Lady Pitkeathley. As someone...

My Lords, these amendments under Clause 14 deal with the difficult area of charging for the care ...

My Lords, not for the first time, I find myself in sympathy with the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeat...

I am a bit bemused. I cannot see where my amendment states that local authorities have to prove i...

I had rather assumed, perhaps wrongly, that if, for whatever reason, there has been a discrepancy...

The noble Lord has interpreted my amendment one way; I have interpreted it in another way. It may...

I am more than happy to discuss this with the noble Lord and I apologise if I have misunderstood ...

Can the Minister clarify his response to my noble friend’s amendment that there would be statutor...

My advice is that the guidance that we will issue on this topic will be binding on local authorit...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in what my noble friend Lord Lipsey called this...

Moved by

Lord Lipsey

89C: Clause 15, page 13, line 30, leave out from “is” to end of ...

Now for something completely different. These amendments hardly deserve the epithet “probing”—mor...

My Lords, my noble friend will not be surprised if I gently defend the Dilnot commission’s recomm...

My Lords, I totally dissent from the case that my noble friend Lord Warner makes. I have opposed ...

My Lords, I hesitate to come between my noble friends Lord Warner, Lord Lipsey and Lord Campbell-...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, explained very clearly, these amendments would mean tha...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply, which was a miracle of putting very well the point ...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

89E: Clause 15, page 13, line 46, at end insert—

“( ) The...

My Lords, my Amendment 89E covers the same ground as, and is very similar to, Amendment 90 in thi...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey. A similar amendment in my name is not as strong...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in this group standing in my name but, before I do so, I...

My Lords, I support the comments made by my noble friend, Lord Lipsey. There is a case for settin...

My Lords, my noble friend refers to the exhortations in the report to require the Government to c...

My Lords, my Amendment 90ZA requires the Secretary of State to report to Parliament,

“in ad...

My Lords, the clauses on the capped-costs system represent a significant step forward, ending dec...

If someone is below the £70,000 figure and funding their own care, why would they bring in the lo...

My Lords, potentially, everyone in need of care and support may benefit from these reforms. We wa...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in favour of a comprehensive, national and cent...