Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Bill
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Bills
House of Lords
Moved by
Lord Turnberg
1: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, leave out from “that” to “avoidab...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ribeiro, and to the Minister and his team for spe...
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My Lords, I also have an amendment in this group. My intention is very similar to that of the nob...
My Lords, I support all four amendments in this group, but I added my name to those of my noble f...
I agree that there should be a culture of openness, honesty and transparency. When things go wron...
My Lords, as noble Lords know, the Opposition support the Bill. However, issues have been raised ...
My Lords, I shall first address a concern that several noble Lords have flagged up most prominent...
That is an extremely helpful answer, but will it be made absolutely clear to employers in the gui...
That is a very important point, which I shall be happy to take away.
Amendment 1, tabled by...
Can the Minister clarify something for me, because I am increasingly puzzled? He keeps talking ab...
What Clause 1 does is to amend the provision whereby the Secretary of State may require the CQC t...
I am sorry but this is quite a key point. If the Minister is right and those regulations were dra...
I am very sorry that I have not given that explanation clearly enough. The point was well drawn o...
My Lords, would another way of addressing the concerns of the noble Lord, Lord Warner, be to say ...
Not for the first time, my noble friend Lord Elton comes to my aid. That is exactly right.
My Lords, I listened extremely carefully to what the noble Earl has just said and I am grateful t...
Perhaps I may say to my noble friend that I think that the noble Lord, Lord Ribeiro, should wind ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that intervention, and I thank my noble friend the Minister ...
Does the noble Lord agree that there is a problem at the moment in that organisations feel somewh...
I entirely agree. This should be taken forward in all the colleges and, in particular, in the Aca...
Will the noble Lord clarify the change in heading? On the first page of the Bill there are two re...
No. The heading “harm-free care” will be changed to “reducing harm in care”.
My Lords, before the noble Lord, Lord Turnberg, decides what to do with his amendment, I shall re...
My Lords, I apologise to the House and to the noble Lord, Lord Ribeiro, for leaping to my feet in...
Moved by
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
5: Clause 2, page 2, line 36, leave out “best”
My Lords, first, I apologise to the House for not declaring my interest as president of the BMA a...
My Lords, Amendment 7 in my name focuses on the proposed duty in Clause 3 to share information be...
My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. I thought that the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, ra...
My Lords, let me turn first to Amendment 5. I understand the noble Baroness’s concern that there ...
My Lords, that was a very helpful response. May I just ask the noble Earl whether explicit exampl...
The noble Lord makes some very good points. The duty to share information will, we trust, ensure ...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for clarifying the issues around the consistent identifier. It is ...
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for being so clear in addressing the issues that I have r...
Moved by
Lord Warner
8: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—
“Child...
My Lords, Amendment 8 follows the slightly unsatisfactory debate at Second Reading on 6 February ...
My Lords, I would like to ask a question of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. Would Amendment 8 help t...
I know of the commitment of the noble Baroness in this area. The answer is that a linked identifi...
My Lords, given the undertaking that we are not going to divide on this, I am tempted on to my fe...
My Lords, I am not sure about the noble Lord’s latter point. I think my noble friend has done us ...
My Lords, to start with a given, I am sure I speak for the whole Committee when I say that we are...
In fact, Reg Wells-Pestell, not Goronwy Roberts, was the Minister. I want to get that right for a...
My Lords, the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Warner, seeks to extend the use of the NHS...
I just want to register something with the Minister. I am grateful for what he had to say, but th...
Moved by
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
9: Clause 5, page 5, line 13, leave out “safety ...
My Lords, I will also address Amendment 10 in my name. Amendment 9 seeks to ask how a regulator c...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, for tabling these amendments to Clause 5 and f...
My Lords, some very important points have been raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and my ...
My Lords, I very much hope that I can allay the concerns of both noble Baronesses and the noble L...
In following the Minister, perhaps I may deal, first, with “well-being”. At paragraph 3.20, the L...
My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, for having expanded on and ...