Health and Care Bill

My Lords, most of what needs to be said about this group of amendments, which I support, has been...

My Lords, this has been an extremely rich and vital debate on crucial amendments, albeit conducte...

My Lords, I start by acknowledging—as I am sure we all do in your Lordships’ House—the value, com...

Well, this has been another fascinating debate, and I welcome the contributions from all noble Lo...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister. I have been listening extremely carefully to his response t...

You can tell the noble Lord used to have my job, because he clearly anticipated the exciting bit—...

As a slight modification of the question that was put, one way that Ministers conclude such debat...

We recognise the strength of feeling in this House and in the other place. This will clearly requ...

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response to this debate, which the noble Baroness, Lad...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

93: Clause 20, page 18, line 26, at end insert—

My Lords, it has been rather a long wait, though I doubt that we shall spend as much time on this...

The noble Lord, Lord Howarth, is taking part remotely and I now invite him to speak.

My Lords, I support my noble friend in his aim, expressed in Amendments 93 and 211, to require th...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord and I endorse the points he makes about the diver...

My Lords, Amendment 213 is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and I am ver...

My Lords, I will briefly speak in support of the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hu...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly, having attached my name to a couple of amendments in this gr...

I have my name to Amendment 93 and Clause 70 stand part. As the noble Lord, Lord Warner, just tol...

My Lords, this group is in two parts. The first part consists of the amendments tabled by my nobl...

My Lords, again, I have heard the excellent contributions that have been made, really holding the...

Will the consultation on outsourcing be published?

I assume it will be but, as I am about to say on a number of other issues, there is clearly a lot...

I am very sorry—I know it is late—but, frankly, these are not rules that will serve the locality....

Before the Minister answers that question, could he make clear whether the primary concern of the...

The noble Lord raises a concern that I have heard a number of times: that we should be careful ab...

I am sure that the noble Lord knows that there is actually no parliamentary scrutiny with the neg...

May I explain about the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, on Clause 70—

Before the Minister abandons Amendment 93 entirely, could he explain why it is necessary to have,...

We do not believe that they are, but clearly there is a difference of opinion about it.

I w...

I am sorry—it is getting late—but will my noble friend at least, at some point, tell us: did Mini...

I take the point that my noble friend makes, and I completely understand the concerns; that is wh...

Would the Minister like a few of us to go along to the department with him?

As the noble Lord will recognise, when I was appointed to this job, I did say that I wanted to co...

My Lords, the hour is late. We cannot have the extensive debate that we probably require. I shall...