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HANSARD National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. Throughout the pandemic, the Government and I have felt our responsibility to protect those living in care homes from covid as best…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI will sum up, as I know other colleagues wish to makes speeches. I put on record my sincere thanks to care workers across the country, not just for their work throughout the…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceWe must ask ourselves: what more can we do to protect those who will be most vulnerable?13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceMy hon. Friend asks a reasonable question. We consulted on exactly that point. There are two reasons relevant to the breadth of the policy, which covers not only care workers, but…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. There is not a great deal more that I can say on that point. As I have said, the impact assessment is being worked on and we will share it with…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies recommends that 80% of staff and 90% of residents should be vaccinated in any care home, at a minimum,…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceI may pre-empt my hon. Friend’s point. I know that hon. Friends have asked why the Government need to bring in the policy if some care homes are doing it themselves. The problem…13 Jul 2021HANSARD National Health ServiceThe hon. Member is right: I know that other parts of the United Kingdom are watching what we are doing here in England. There are regular conversations between the Department of…13 Jul 2021HANSARDMotor Neurone Disease (Research)I would be delighted to meet the proposers. I was just coming on to talk about a recent roundtable that I hosted, together with the NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre,…12 Jul 2021HANSARDMotor Neurone Disease (Research)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Cummins. I thank the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) and congratulate the petitioners on securing…12 Jul 2021HANSARDMotor Neurone Disease (Research)I thank the hon. Member for her point; I will come on to say a bit more about that, and I assure her that I have absolutely heard her argument. However, I am addressing as I go…12 Jul 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Effect on Retirement CommunitiesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing the debate and for his fantastic speech setting out…01 Jul 2021HANSARD Covid-19: Effect on Retirement CommunitiesI thank the hon. Member for his point. I completely agree. I will come to that, if he will just bear with me. I will continue, but I will pick up on exactly that. As a Government,…01 Jul 2021HANSARDDesignated Settings: Indemnity Support (September extension)Further to my written statement on 25 March 2021, I am tabling this statement for the benefit of hon. and right hon. Members to bring to their attention the undertaking of a…29 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformI cannot at this point go into the details of the proposals that we are working on for social care reform. I have tried to give the House today a sense of the breadth and scale of…23 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformI would not want to upset the Chancellor by talking about tax policy at the Dispatch Box, but, as I have said to colleagues—and, in fact, as the Prime Minister has said—one of the…23 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformThe hon. Member asks about the hold-up. As I have said quite clearly, we have had a pandemic, which has been an unprecedented challenge for our country, our Government and our…23 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; reform has been talked about by many Governments. One of the challenges is that people say, “Social care is broken and we must fix it”, but…23 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformI would not see this as either/or. We have said that we will bring forward proposals for social care reform. To the hon. Lady’s point about discharge, it is well known at that,…23 Jun 2021HANSARD Social Care ReformYes, absolutely. One of the strengths of our social care system is its huge diversity, with the different forms of social care and the different ways it works in different…23 Jun 2021