Care Bill [Lords]

I hope that the House will forgive my having a number of new clauses to explain in the time avail...

I added my name to the right hon. Gentleman’s new clause. Does he agree that the Bill is putting ...

The hon. Lady is right, and with her own experience in social work practice, she will know why th...

Who drafted new clause 1 and which main outside organisations support it?

Organisations that have supported the new clause, which I have drafted, include people with a leg...

I welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s conversion to the identification of carers by NHS bodies, be...

The hon. Lady is not a convert. She has been consistent and clear in her pursuit of this provisio...

I, too, have supported my right hon. Friend’s new clause, because this is an essential point. Thi...

That is absolutely right. This is not, as it can sometimes be portrayed, a case of “Let’s just ha...

My right hon. Friend mentions Laing and Buisson. I believe that it has come up with a formula tha...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the basis of the average fair rate, which I mentioned...

I apologise for breaking the right hon. Gentleman’s flow. I agree with virtually everything that ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He makes an important point. If one lo...

We are discussing a huge number of new clauses and amendments, and I will try to keep my comments...

The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill is going through the Welsh Parliament. My party t...

I am sure that my colleagues in the Welsh Assembly want to do everything they can to improve care...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am really sorry, but I want to make a bit more progress. I have a lot of new clauses to get thr...

I quite agree that we need a high quality work force who are well trained and supported, but if t...

If the right hon. Gentleman reads our new clause 18, he will see what our approach is. Local coun...

Given the point my hon. Friend has just made, does she agree that it is all the more important th...

I know about the approach that has been taken in Wirral and think that it is an excellent example...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will let me finish this point.

For working-age disabled people, ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Order. Before the shadow Minister considers taking further interventions, she may not have realis...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have two more paragraphs. I agreed that I would speak for 25 m...

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Order. Before I call anyone from the Back Benches, let me say that the shadow Minister has been m...

I am not quite sure who to be bad-tempered with. As the House knows, I am not characteristically ...

I shall do my best not to be grumpy and to be as quick as the right hon. Member for Banbury (Sir ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that even when people’s needs are substantial, they are often not...

My hon. Friend, as ever, makes an extremely worthwhile and practical point. Simply having the wor...

My amendments 27 and 28 are on safeguarding. Clause 42 contains a raft of measures that will go s...

I shall speak briefly about new clauses 17 and 18 and amendments 31 to 33, which stand in my name...

Because of the local government cuts, people are no longer thinking about that general duty of we...

I entirely agree. The budgets of council adult social care departments are now so stretched that ...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent point. In new clause 32, I propose that the Secretary of Sta...

I apologise for not having read the hon. Gentleman’s new clause. I have been focusing on my own n...

I will try to hit my five-minute target by excluding a lot of other comments, including on the el...

In introducing new clause 3, the right hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow) said how h...

I would like to speak briefly to new clauses 1, 26 and 9. I hope new clause 1 on the adult safegu...

I, too, have had experience of being in a police station, as a duty solicitor in my case, and the...

I thank my hon. Friend for those comments and I welcome the mental health crisis care concordat, ...

I will speak to the amendments in my name. I share the view of the right hon. Member for Banbury ...

I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to new clause 5, which is in my name. I thank the m...

I echo the sentiments of other hon. Members about the lack of time we have been allocated. I appr...

Social services are under huge funding pressure, which has a knock-on effect on the NHS. New clau...

I share the frustration of many Members at the shortness of time that we have had to discuss such...

That is a helpful way forward, but I ask the Minister to say a little bit more about new clause 1...

I have already confirmed that we will return to the matter later in the process, and I hope that ...

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I am conscious that I owe it to hon. Members to respond to all the issues that have been raised.<...

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I am sorry; I must ensure that I get through all the amendments.

On new clause 13, I am cle...

Order. The Minister must be heard. Hon. Members are being rude in speaking.

Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker.

For some people, the care planning process may b...

Will the Minister give way?

I do not have time, I am afraid.

We will set out in guidance best practice on conducting ca...

I give notice that I would like to press new clause 9 to a vote and beg leave to withdraw new cla...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 10—Exercise of functio...

This part of the Bill and this group of new clauses and amendments are all about ensuring that th...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is a matter of not only looking at how competently a loca...

Absolutely. That is why the duty on market shaping set out in the Bill is about stretching the lo...

My right hon. Friend is making an excellent case. There is another reason why it is essential tha...

Order. Paul Burstow.

My hon. Friend makes an important point—

I think he made a speech.

I defer to you on that point, Mr Deputy Speaker.

New clause 8 would ensure first, that ther...

I thank the right hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow) for getting this extensive grou...

I shall speak to new clauses 28, 29, 30 and 33, which stand in my name and those of other hon. Me...

New clause 27 would establish an offence of corporate neglect. The problem needs to be tackled fo...

I have listened with great interest to my hon. Friend, as I did to the hon. Member for Bristol No...

I assure my right hon. Friend that the new clause refers to all adults, so takes on board the peo...

In Committee, the Minister said that he supported the sentiment of the proposal. Does my hon. Fri...

My hon. Friend has got to the nub of the issue. Managers and directors of organisations such as c...

I want to speak primarily to the new clauses moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmon...

Sutton and Cheam.

Forgive me—the right part of London, but the wrong constituency.

My right hon. Friend is on...

My right hon. Friend is making a very important point, which he has pursued vigorously as Chair o...

I agree with the thought that my right hon. Friend identifies. I have been choosing my words with...

The idea that the right hon. Gentleman propagates, which he has long held—that fragmentation is a...

The hon. Gentleman knows that I do not entirely share his concern about who holds the share certi...

The right hon. Gentleman speaks with enormous authority on these matters. On the issue of communi...

No, I do not believe that simply empowering the Care Quality Commission to go into that space is ...

I reassure my right hon. Friend that I want to chart the course with him. I completely agree on t...

I am grateful to the Minister for his encouragement that I am on the right path.

There is a...

I will speak to amendment 19 and echo some of the excellent comments made by my hon. Friend the M...

My hon. Friend is making a convincing case. I have a background in local government. Does she agr...

I agree completely, and I will echo my right hon. Friend’s comments later in my speech.

I h...

Let me begin by thanking all Members for their contributions to the debate.

Part 2 of the B...

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I will give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow) first.

I apologise for getting in just before the hon. Lady.

May I return to a point that I raised...

Subject to the fact that the CQC is an independent body, I will certainly reinforce that point in...

Perhaps I am being impatient—the Minister may deal with this point later in his speech—but I shou...

I take very seriously the point that the hon. Lady has raised, but if she will allow me to contin...

The Minister has outlined that he wants to work with the commission, local authorities and others...

I totally agree with the right hon. Gentleman. The more that we talk to organisations with expert...

The Minister mentioned that a number of measures may be taken pre-failure in order to avoid the f...

I am happy to ensure that a note goes to my right hon. Friend and other Members, as he requests.<...

I am grateful for the Minister’s responses to my three new clauses. I look forward to hearing wha...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment (a) to Government new c...

The Government are fully committed to the care.data programme and to the core principles that und...

Will the Minister give way?

I have not said anything controversial yet, so if the hon. Gentleman will let me make some progre...

Can the Minister reassure us that there will be no possibility of private companies obtaining the...

I hope that I have already given the hon. Gentleman some reassurance that the data will have to b...

Would the Minister like to comment on an announcement made at the launch of the MedRed BT health ...

I am not going to be drawn into commenting on an American system. The point is that there are str...

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I have been generous in giving way to the hon. Lady; I hope that she will let me address her poin...

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I am not going to give way. I am still addressing the hon. Lady’s point, and I am not saying anyt...

Where in the new clause does it say that? Nowhere does it say that the data cannot be passed to p...

Hopefully, if I am allowed to make some progress and address the points that have been raised, I ...

Will the Minister give way?

No, I will not.

Are you afraid?

No, I am not afraid to give way. The hon. Gentleman should sit down, because he often has quite e...

Before the Minister sits down, I would be very appreciative if he could direct me to the precise ...

It is clear that the information can be used only for the benefit of the health and care service ...

Will the Minister give way?

No, the hon. Lady has had many interventions; I have been very generous—[Interruption.] I know sh...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I understood that this debate was scrutiny of the remaining stag...

The Minister is certainly in order and there is a continuation of Report stage tomorrow. I am sur...

Indeed, Mr Speaker, and I hope that other Members will also be sensitive to that. The more interv...

In principle, I support the utilisation of truly anonymised patient data sharing for the purposes...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, because the Minister was clearly frightened of an...

That is a perfect example and an important question that the Minister and the Government should a...

To add to the theme that my hon. Friend is developing, is not one of the problems with care.data ...

My right hon. Friend has hit the nail on the head, because there has been a catalogue of mismanag...

I want to return to a theme that we were discussing in an earlier debate this evening. The true n...

I thought I was being fairly clear. In the debate on the earlier group of amendments, we discusse...

It is very important for there to be as much protection for the individual and the patient as pos...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point which echoes a point made on the Labour Benches a f...

The hon. Gentleman and I often agree on these issues, but I am slightly concerned. Of course we w...

The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. It is not my intention to do that, but we have to re...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I wanted to mention an example that has been presented to me in relation to rare illnesses. It is...

I thank my hon. Friend: he is being very generous in giving way. Does he agree that scope is an i...

That is a good point. It is very important for the Government to lay down parameters for the scop...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent, intelligent and informed speech. The charge has been made ...

I entirely agree. I think that that is vital, because, as we have seen in the case of politicians...

Does the hon. Gentleman think that there will be a problem with patients sharing that information...

On an individual basis, I do not see a problem with that. The problem arises when dealing with la...

The hon. Gentleman has been incredibly gracious in giving way on several occasions. He has said t...

I have considered that, and that is an important point. Compliance is important. Those issues sho...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern and that of many GPs that the lack of necessary safeguards i...

That is a huge danger. We have an opportunity to address that in this House this evening and when...

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Order. One might have thought the intervention of the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr Reed) was exqu...