Parliamentary search - Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill (HL)

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Parliamentary proceeding

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449 c406-22

Session

2005-06

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Wales Office

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Third reading and Report stage

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House of Commons chamber

Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill (HL) . Brought from Lords. Explanatory Notes Bill 132-EN also published
Thursday, 16 February 2006
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Proceeding contributions

Mark Williams | 449 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) signalled on Second Reading that...

Nick Ainger | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that it is fair to characterise the Children's Commissioner as campaigning against—

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Stephen Crabb | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think it legitimate for an unelected commissioner to campaign against policy prior...

Nick Ainger | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish the point. I am not sure that it is fair to characterise the Children's Commissioner a...

Nick Ainger | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have covered the point that the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mark Williams) raised. A ...

Stephen Crabb | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) indicated dissent.

Greg Knight | 449 c415 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 3, in page 8, line 25, at end insert ‘with or without notice.’. This is...

Greg Knight | 449 c414 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate. I assure the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam P...

Greg Knight | 449 c416 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that the powers were already in the Bill. Does he mean that they are written into ...

Nick Ainger | 449 c415-6 (Link to this contribution) The amendment seeks to make explicit the provision that the commissioner, or someone authorised by h...

Nick Ainger | 449 c416 (Link to this contribution) There are two distinct roles. If there is a complaint by an older person in a care home about the co...

David Jones | 449 c416 (Link to this contribution) I take the Minister’s point. I was concerned about the amendment tabled by my right hon. Friend the ...

Nick Ainger | 449 c416 (Link to this contribution) I am assured that the powers are in the Bill. I cannot direct the right hon. Gentleman to the exact ...

Nick Ainger | 449 c417-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The Bill received its Second Reading on 15...

Greg Knight | 449 c417 (Link to this contribution) I accept entirely what my hon. Friend says, but a full-blown investigation may often start from evid...

Greg Knight | 449 c416-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister referred me to clause 13, but that is silent on whether the power of entry or of interv...

Cheryl Gillan | 449 c419-21 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that we have reached Third Reading. I am grateful to the Minister for his kind comments...

Nick Ainger | 449 c418-9 (Link to this contribution) That is not correct. The commissioner will certainly be able to intervene in relation to the local a...

Roger Williams | 449 c418 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that innovative Welsh legislation is sometimes imitated in England—I am thinking ...

Chris Ruane | 449 c408 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady like to borrow my glasses?

Cheryl Gillan | 449 c406-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 1, in page 1, line 13, at end insert—

Mark Williams | 449 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) We very much welcome the addition of clause 9 to the Bill in the other place. It has been widely wel...

Greg Knight | 449 c410-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 2, in page 6, line 25, at end insert—"‘But no assistance shall be given ...

Cheryl Gillan | 449 c410 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his response, and I look forward to receiving more detail on certa...

Nick Ainger | 449 c409-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the way in which the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) introduced...

Cheryl Gillan | 449 c408-9 (Link to this contribution) No thanks. I appreciate the offer, but I have got big print in front of me. RNIB Cymru has estimate...

Nick Ainger | 449 c413 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. In our debates, nobody has questioned the fact that the commissioner should be open and ...

Nick Ainger | 449 c413 (Link to this contribution) The amendment would restrict the commissioner’s ability to provide assistance for undertaking resear...

Cheryl Gillan | 449 c412 (Link to this contribution) Although my name is not attached to the amendment, I shall be interested to hear what the Minister h...

Christopher Chope | 449 c417 (Link to this contribution) Before my right hon. Friend gets carried away with his rhetoric about how wonderful the provision is...

David TC Davies | 449 c413 (Link to this contribution) No one would want research of that nature restricted, but the amendment is not about restricting or ...

Adam Price | 449 c412 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the interest shown by the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Knight) in the effecti...

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