Health and Care Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the National Chil...

I support and very much welcome government Amendments 36, 157 and 185 in response to the powerful...

I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, for her support; it is very much appreciated....

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, on his efforts to keep the issue of prevent...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend the Minister for Amendments 36 and 157. I shall also speak ...

My Lords, I welcome my noble friend back and commend him for his bravery. We came into the House ...

My Lords, I too welcome the government amendments—bur first I wish the noble Lord, Lord Shinkwin,...

I thank all noble Lords who have raised important points in this debate; I also thank them for ac...

Before my noble Lord sits down, does “children” in this amendment include children in care?

Moved by

Lord Kamall

55: Clause 20, page 24, leave out lines 39 to 43 and insert “sec...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

60: Clause 20, page 27, line 43, at end insert—

“(3) ...

My Lords, I thank Ministers, officials and other Peers, including my noble friends Lord Clement-J...

My Lords, first, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, on the brevity of her remarks, ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to speak to Amendments 60 and 116, and I congratulate my noble friend La...

My Lords, I rise even more briefly to support Amendment 116. It is worth reminding the Minister a...

My Lords, I simply rise to say that I agree with all noble Lords who have spoken and look forward...

My Lords, I rise to share all the concerns expressed about the open-endedness of what is in the B...

My goodness—I thank noble Lords for their brevity. I am afraid that I shall not be as brief as I ...

I now invite the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, who is taking part remotely, to reply to the debat...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, in particular for their br...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

61: Clause 21, page 29, line 14, leave out from “committee” to ...

My Lords, Amendments 61, 95 and 96, which are all in my name, are to two separate issues. Amendme...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and declare my in...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has made some important and sensible points, and I look f...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has once again put his finger on an issue that the Govern...

My Lords, this has been an important discussion about place and joint working, and although the G...

My Lords, I am most grateful to noble Lords for their support, and to my noble friend for respond...

Moved by

Lord Farmer

64: Clause 21, page 30, line 1, leave out “may” and insert “must...

My Lords, I want to respond to Amendment 64.

Amendment 64 has already been spoken to.

But I did not withdraw it. I was waiting for the response; nor did I have a chance to say whether...

The noble Lord is correct that he can speak to Amendment 64 and, in doing so, move it, but he sho...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, and other noble Lords, for their support, and I thank the...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

69: Clause 26, page 37, line 24, leave out “objectives and”

My Lords, this group of amendments in my name relates to Clause 26. Noble Lords will recall that ...

My Lords, the CQC is a competent and independent organisation. Long may that continue, and any at...

I agree with that and with the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. We will be coming to other issues about ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for raising this issue. I hope in the spirit of collaboration a...

I am most grateful to my noble friend and for the support of noble Lords for the concept. I hope ...

Moved by

Baroness Penn

76: Schedule 4, page 173, line 29, at end insert—

“Armed...

Moved by

Baroness Penn

78: Clause 29, page 39, line 34, leave out “also”

Member...

Moved by

Baroness Cumberlege

80: Clause 35, page 42, leave out lines 14 to 19 and ins...

My Lords, as this is Report, I declare my interests, which are that I am employed by NHS England ...

My Lords, I shall speak shortly to Amendment 168, but want briefly to refer to Amendment 80, move...

Now I invite the noble Baroness, Lady Masham, who is also speaking remotely, to speak.

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 80 and 168. Amendment 80 is very important and I thank the noble ...

My Lords, I am an honorary fellow of the two Edinburgh colleges and I strongly support this. It s...

My Lords, I will just speak to my Amendments 111 and 168. On Amendment 111, when the noble Barone...

I shall speak to Amendment 82 in the name of my noble friend Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. I atte...

My Lords, I am very pleased to co-sponsor the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Cumb...

My Lords, would the noble Lord be surprised to hear the rumours that the Treasury has prevented t...

We await insight from the Minister himself on that point; it is indeed, of course, what the chair...

My Lords, this whole group is worthy of government action, and I support Amendments 80 and 81 in ...

My Lords, I will be exceptionally brief and make two very quick points, but first I need to apolo...

My Lords, I also support my noble friend Lady Cumberlege and Amendment 80. The noble Lord, Lord S...

My Lords, I must declare my interests: I am a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Roya...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support very strongly Amendments 80, 81 and others in the group. They...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support this group of amendments and to declare my interest as a fell...

My Lords, I will intervene. I was not intending to speak but I was prompted by a recollection ari...

My Lords, I support Amendment 111 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, to which I have added...

My Lords, it is clear that there remain huge and serious concerns across the House and beyond reg...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Cumberlege, on the way she introduced Amendment...

This powerful debate has focused on two simple truths. First, without the full team of people in ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for bringing the discussion of workforce planning before t...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but when I listened to that last statement about Health Educ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord because that was a point I was hoping to come to when I lost my l...

My Lords, thank my noble friend very much. He has certainly gone as far as he can today; I am afr...