Care Bill [HL]

My Lords, I rise briefly to make two points, the first as a result of my membership of the Joint ...

My Lords, I should have put my name to this excellent amendment.

It would not be the first ...

My Lords, I, too, speak in support of the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Warner. I...

My Lords, I endorse and support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Warner. We have...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. I partly echo what the noble Ba...

My Lords, briefly, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. I will be brief, as I ...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I open on today’s Committee by declaring inter...

My Lords, in some ways this is a reprise of an earlier debate we had in Committee, but none the l...

I accept the noble Earl’s point, which he has made before, that local authorities sometimes pay l...

The noble Earl says that that transition funding has been taken into account. Can he also confirm...

I will come back to the noble Baroness on that question.

I take the point of the noble Lord...

My Lords, this has been a helpful debate and I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in ...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

104ZE: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause—

“Ac...

My Lords, it is very clear that this Bill puts upon local authorities enormously complex duties a...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with the case that my noble friend has put in establishing the...

My Lords, I briefly intervene from the perspective of a member of the Joint Select Committee, whi...

My Lords, subject to later comments about funding and the issues raised by my noble friend Lord B...

My Lords, I am pleased that this important issue has been raised. I hope that I can provide the n...

I am grateful to the Minister. What he says is very interesting but will the review be completed ...

Certainly, I anticipate that the results of the review will be available before the Bill has conc...

Would the noble Earl find it helpful if, on Report, we introduced an order-making power in the pr...

That might prove helpful but I will take advice on it. We do not want to duplicate powers that al...

I am grateful to the Minister and I am interested in what he has to say. First, I thank my noble ...

Moved by

Lord Patel of Bradford

105: Clause 68, page 56, leave out lines 4 to 11 and ...

My Lords, my amendment affects Clause 68(5), which aims to provide a definition of aftercare serv...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel of Bradford, for introducing this extremely importan...

My Lords, my noble friend is right to express his frustration and dismay that, once again, we are...

My Lords, we understand and respect the desire of the noble Lord, Lord Patel of Bradford, to achi...

I suppose the only bit of that I was pleased about was the proposal that we should meet. Unfortun...

Does the noble Lord accept what I have just said: that it was doubt over cases like that which le...

I still have a problem because the definition is very clear, as the noble Baroness has said. It i...

Under the Interpretation Act 1978, words in the singular may include the plural.

I completely agree that legally that is what it means, but the 1983 Act does not use the word “th...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

105A: Clause 69, page 57, line 7, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, the Government have tabled a number of amendments in relation to prisons to help clarif...

My Lords, this is something of a miscellaneous group of amendments. I wish to speak to Amendment ...

My Lords, I shall speak more briefly, your Lordships will be pleased to learn, than I have in any...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 105Q in my name and in the name of someone I am proud to cal...

My Lords, I shall speak to my amendments 105AA and 105CA, which affect subsections (6) and (7) of...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on Amendments 105AA and 105CA, and will comment o...

My Lords, this is largely a group of government technical amendments, interspersed with amendment...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for tabling the other amendments in this group on these very import...

I just want to get this point on record and then perhaps we can come back to it. I understand tha...

The point is that if local authorities must also conduct inquiries in prisons and approved premis...

Can I just make sure—does that mean that the third party to whom the care function may be delegat...

What I have written here is that when the local authority delegates a public function to a third ...

I am very grateful for that further clarification. It is reassuring to hear that the third party ...

I will certainly write to the noble Lord and spell it out. Given the local authority’s responsibi...

Moved by

Earl Howe

105B: Clause 69, page 57, line 28, at end insert—

“(6A) An S...

Moved by

Earl Howe

105D: Clause 69, page 57, line 31, leave out from second “officer”...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

105NA: Clause 70, page 58, line 20, at end insert—