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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I became a little worried, listening to the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, that perhaps I had been a bit too generous.14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am grateful for the noble Baronesses’ comments. I will come back with some examples before I sit down, because that is a very good suggestion. If I fail to do so, I will gladly…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am sure that the noble and learned Baroness’s yawn speaks for many.14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]There is no need to apologise. I am pleased to provide the reassurance that the proposed changes to the Section 3 detention criteria mean that it would no longer be possible to…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their amendments and contributions today. It seems a while ago that the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, originally spoke, but I put on…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]Yes, I understand the intention, but I refer back, perhaps usefully, to the point I made earlier that review meetings would take place at least once in a 12-month period; it is…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for making that point, and I will gladly review this in the light of it. To return to the specific amendments, they would ensure…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lords present for their contributions this evening. Perhaps I can make a general point to the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, and the noble…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord for adding to the points that he made in response to my comments and the assurances that I have just given, and I am happy to review them. I understand the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]When I review all of the debates, particularly where there are areas where we need further discussion or information, I will be glad to pursue that. I give that assurance to the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am approaching this without going down the amendments’ route of having a fully prescriptive list, which might have unintended consequences.14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I hope it helps to advise that the responsible commissioner will be key to all that. I emphasise the need to design around the patient and their needs. If there are further points…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I will be pleased to come back to that point. I think agreement broke out for a moment, which I would share, on the fact that detention takes many forms. It is about getting the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their interventions, for which I am grateful. They give me the opportunity to say now what perhaps I should have said at the outset: I will of course…14 Jan 2025HANSARDPrisons: Health ServicesI know that the Ministry of Justice is also looking at this, and my noble friend is certainly right to make that point.14 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanMy Lords, as the social care system in this country is failing, we are therefore launching an independent commission into social care to gain cross-party consensus and lay the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanI was indeed listening very closely to the questions put to my noble friend, and have been asked them myself on a number of occasions in this House. On national insurance…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanThe workforce plan will be about employed members of staff. On unpaid carers, I am glad to remind your Lordships’ House that, from April, we will be increasing the carer’s…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanMy noble friend is never boring and certainly does not bore this Minister. I very much take the point about the difference between the social care workforce and the NHS workforce,…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanI can give that assurance to the noble Lord, and I am glad he has identified to your Lordships’ House the wide range of circumstances in which the workforce might be. For the…13 Jan 2025