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HANSARDSmokingHopefully, my previous answer shows that we are investing major money in cessation services. I must admit to not being that familiar with the drug the noble Baroness mentions, so…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingI totally agree with the noble Baroness on the importance of stopping smoking—always, but especially during pregnancy. In fact, we have a maternity debate coming straight after…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingAs I say, we have tried to answer the four major points that Khan put forward, including doubling the spend from £70 million a year to £140 million. The levy was the one thing…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingI thank the noble Lord. Actually, Khan recommended four major things to achieve that in his report Smokefree 2030 . The first was to increase the anti-smoking spend that the noble…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingSmoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the UK, costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service. That is why we will…25 Jan 2024HANSARDMaternity ServicesI too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, for enabling us to have this debate and I am grateful for all the contributions from Members here with their vast experience and…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingYes, I am aware of the moves, and I am sure there will be many more. I was advised that it was a fairly unusual legal challenge on consultation, which I believe was withdrawn…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingI hope I could give my categorical agreement that everything is based on evidence and common sense; I will let people draw their own conclusions as to whether that is always the…25 Jan 2024HANSARDSmokingAgain, we are mindful of trying to get the balance right. Inevitably, by taking away a major market, which the over-18s will become as we go into it, smoking sales through retail…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingI thank my noble friend for the question. The whole point of trying to develop the career structure that we talk about is to make sure that it is a career that people want to go…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingThe noble Baroness is correct that the numbers are a result of flow. We are seeing thousands more people hospitalised through A&E, so the fact that we have managed to reduce the…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingThe 70,000 increase is a net increase, so it takes into account the turnover of staff, many of whom rejoin somewhere else in a social care setting. Notwithstanding that, I agree…18 Jan 2024HANSARDDementiaI add my thanks to my noble friend Lady Browning not only for bringing this debate but for her commitment generally in this area. I also thank all noble Lords for their…18 Jan 2024HANSARDNational Immunisation ProgrammeI too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, for allowing us to have this debate today. To my mind, this is the right way to do business—for want of a better word. We have smart…18 Jan 2024HANSARDDementiaThe noble Lord makes a very good point, and it is one I have some personal experience of as well. The hope, when setting up 42 ICSs, was that this would be the right size for them…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingMy noble friend is correct that the recruitment of personal carers is harder. I know that this is close to his heart. I can probably serve him best by giving him a written reply…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingYes, I totally agree. That is why we announced this career pathway last week, to try to do exactly what the noble Lord is talking about. It has been welcomed; I quoted from ADASS,…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingWe estimate that the number of adult social care filled posts increased by 70,000 in the last 18 months. The Government remain committed to the 10-year vision to put people at the…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingYes. I have seen a number of really good examples of the kind of step-down care that my noble friend is talking about, or intermediate care that can be used as interim measures.…18 Jan 2024HANSARDCare Home StaffingIt was a Home Office impact assessment, so I freely admit that I do not know exactly who was consulted; I will happily get back to the noble Lord on that. I know that the…18 Jan 2024