Public Services: Update

I, too, welcome this Statement and the remarkable change of tone it contains about public sector ...

My Lords, perhaps I may begin by congratulating the Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds on the birt...

My Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s Statement. I join in the expressions of deep gratitude to a...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend. Of course, I wholly endorse what he said about the great achie...

My Lords, the Minister brings a vast range of experience to this subject, so he will recall that ...

My Lords, I am not going to follow the noble Lord into considering history; otherwise, one could ...

Baroness Pinnock? Baroness Pinnock is not responding. Baroness Watkins of Tavistock.

My Lords, I, too, welcome the Statement and join in the expression of appreciation of everyone wh...

PPE is of course of fundamental importance. If anybody in the country did not realise it at the s...

I again call the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock.

Following on from the noble Lord, Lord Laming, I want to explore the needs of local authorities a...

My Lords, I might be new in the game, but I am afraid that I cannot urge the Government because I...

My Lords, given the latest Public Health England advice that quarantining of new and at-risk pris...

My Lords, my noble friend raises a very important point. Prisoners are a vulnerable part of the c...

My Lords, I thank the Government for agreeing the £60,000 award for health and social care worker...

My Lords, my honourable friend the Minister for Health has said that he will consider the details...

I would like to say first how impressed I am by the work of the Department for Work and Pensions,...

My Lords, I am grateful for what my noble and learned friend said about the Department for Work a...

As the Government have recognised clearly and appropriately in the Statement, front-line workers ...

My Lords, I cannot answer the detail on the last point; I will advise the noble Baroness on that ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his comments, particularly on schools. Reopening schools as...

My Lords, obviously, education is of critical importance. As my noble friend will know, some scho...

My Lords, I have strong solidarity with all public sector workers. What are the plans for the pos...

I thank the noble Baroness. It is of course in the hands of the Chancellor. I am sure the noble B...

Our National Health Service may be wonderful, but it has a very sclerotic decision-making process...

My Lords, the fact that my noble friend points to—the indirect impact on people and their health ...

My Lords, I listened in vain for reference in the Statement to public transport or to the freight...

My Lords, I totally agree with the noble Baroness about those who work in public transport. I am ...

My Lords, following the question from the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, does the Minister accept t...

My Lords, I share that aspiration and I know that the Government do, but the need to protect the ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s comments about the support from the voluntary sector—i...

My Lords, I certainly take into consideration what the noble Lord says. As I said earlier, throug...

I congratulate my noble friend and his department on the work they are doing on domestic food sup...

My Lords, I regret that the sound was not very good for my noble friend’s question. I certainly c...

My Lords, that concludes Back-Bench questions on the Statement. The day’s Virtual Proceedings are...