Health and Social Care Levy Bill

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is taking part remotely. I invite the noble Baroness ...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a vice-president of the Local Government Association and a vi...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, who speaks with such authority on this s...

My Lords, it is a privilege and a little daunting to follow the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. I shoul...

My Lords, I draw attention to my declaration of interests in the register, including the ownershi...

My Lords, for decades, social care has proved to be an intractable problem. After numerous review...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a close family member is a long-term care home resident. Befor...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness; I agree with her on one or two items I ...

My Lords, if we did not have a national insurance contribution system, no one would even think of...

My Lords, in the last two years I have become seasoned in these debates on social care. I am comp...

My Lords, it is of course a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, but also to underlin...

My Lords, I refer to my interests as set out in the register. I have no illusions about the mount...

My Lords, I declare an interest that may be common to many, if not most, of us in your Lordships’...

My Lords, I remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. Like...

My Lords, that is one way of putting it. This Bill has been so hacked about from every Bench, so ...

My Lords, it is with some trepidation that I add my voice to those who have spoken already on thi...

I regret being unable to support this Bill and will try to articulate some of my reasons. There a...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I am an unpaid senior adviser to Tax...

My Lords, it is clear that there is an understanding across the House that there is a crisis in s...

My Lords, in following the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, I wish to entirely dissociate myself from any...

Not entirely.

It is a lot freer than it is here. What does it cover? Personal hygiene, assistance at mealtimes,...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on at least tackling what is a very vexatious part of gov...

My Lords, an advantage of being the last speaker is that everybody has to come back into the Cham...

My Lords, I am the first of the winding speakers. I have listened to many debates in this House, ...

My Lords, I first thank all noble Lords for their contributions. After 23 years in your Lordships...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. The quality of speakers has been very high, and I ...

Would the noble Lord give the House an estimate of how much a person would really have to spend b...

My Lords, more detail will be set out in the Budget and spending review in the next two or three ...

I apologise. My noble friend was about to answer the question on domiciliary care.

Yes, sorry. I lost my thread. There will be no changes to existing procedures.

Noble Lords ...

Before the Minister leaves this area of exploration, does he have an answer to my question on whe...

I cannot give the noble Baroness a clear answer on that now. More detail will be available in the...

The Minister is straying into territory that I think is probably unwise. The noble Lord, Lord Nas...

I respectfully disagree with the noble Baroness on that. Your Lordships are having a much more de...

It is fortunate that the Minister just brought up once again the issue of fairness and the discus...

I take on board the noble Lord’s points, but the reality is that the highest-paid in this country...