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HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, I completely agree that the carer’s assessment is the building block of our system. It is incredibly important; we do a lot of work to encourage more carers to get it. I…13 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, the maths that my noble friend has done is a little bit premature. The White Paper will come out later this year; it will spell out the precise financial arrangements,…13 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, I recognise the challenge referred to by the noble Baroness. Some 2.9 million carers are employed; that is more than half of all carers. One can only imagine the…13 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, we recognise that family carers play a vital role. When we announced an additional £4.5 billion over three years for social care, it included a commitment to take steps…13 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, I do acknowledge the pressures on unpaid carers and pay tribute to the incredible contribution they have made during these very difficult 18 months. We are continuing to…13 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI violently agree with both the noble Lord’s points in spirit. If I may take them in reverse order, he is right that there are people who are not taking the vaccine, and they put…09 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the noble Baroness for three extremely thoughtful questions. I will dwell on them, if I may, because they are a good opportunity to answer some of the concerns that I know…09 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I am extremely grateful for such thoughtful questions. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for her kind remarks: I had a very good break, and I hope that both she…09 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am very grateful to the noble Baroness for asking about the co-administration of the flu and Covid vaccines. I hope very much that I got back to her. If I did not, I shall give…09 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am grateful to the noble Lord for raising the point again, and my apologies to the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, for not addressing her point the first time around. I will just…09 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy noble friend has had an interest in this very important area for some time, and I completely applaud his diligence on it. It is an area that I share an absolute fascination…09 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, I acknowledge my noble friend’s concerns about that point. It is a fact of life of trying to manage complex healthcare systems that you do not know necessarily on a…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, we are looking at ways in which to take testing and other treatment out of hospitals and into the community. On my noble friend’s substantive point I say that, as he may…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceI pay tribute to the noble Lord’s great experience and expertise in this matter. He will be aware that we have a social partnership forum, where we work extremely closely with the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, there are vacancies in nursing, as there always are. The vacancies at present are not hugely higher than they are normally and, in fact, we have more nurses today than…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, I completely acknowledge the phenomenon of burnout that the noble Lord rightly points out; the NHS people recovery taskforce, appointed to tackle exactly that problem,…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the nurses in all parts of our healthcare system, who have done an amazing job through the pandemic. We are on track to deliver our…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, there are 303,900 full- time nurses in the NHS trusts and CCGs, an increase of more than 8,900 from June 2020, so the impression that the noble Lord is giving is not, I…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, the noble Baroness raises a really important point. We addressed it nearly 18 months ago, before the pandemic, when we had a crackdown on racism and abuse from patients.…08 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceMy Lords, as my noble friend will know, the training grant of at least £5,000 per academic year per eligible student is in place, plus a further £3,000 of additional targeted…08 Sept 2021