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HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]For clarification, is the Minister therefore saying that the Government’s amendment will lead to some statutory instrument, or will it be just at the discretion of the Minister to…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I really need to understand the intent of the Minister’s Amendment 17 “authorising … a copy of the report to be given to other persons”. How do the Government intend to draw up…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I do not think that I or anybody else who has a different opinion from the noble Baroness wants to see those people being neglected. We have a different view. The issue I have…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I have listened very carefully to the Minister about flexibility. Why is 12 months in the Bill? All I am trying to do is to change a statutory timeframe that the Government have…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 31 in my name in this group. I support Amendment 28, which was just spoken to very ably by the noble Baroness, Lady…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak my Amendments 8, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 20 in this group. They are to do what my noble friend Lady Barker said: to try to beef up the care (education) and…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I am sorry to interrupt the Minister in mid-flow. She has just explained why it would be wrong to put the process for collecting the data in the Bill, with which I completely…14 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance: Charity SectorMy Lords, in the middle of this political shenanigans going on, the average hospice in this country will be hit by a £200,000 funding gap based on the Government’s national…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAdult Social Care: Long-term Workforce PlanMy Lords, the turnaround rate for social care staff was about 30% last year, so retention is clearly an important issue. However, the Government have not helped the situation…13 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance: Employer ContributionsMy Lords, the new burdens approach says that councils should be fully funded. The Minister keeps referring to the £515 million uplift, yet the Nuffield Trust has pointed out that…09 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformMy Lords, we on these Benches welcome the Statement and can see some positives in the way forward, but we have some reservations about timescales and unintended consequences in…07 Jan 2025HANSARDHospice FundingMy Lords, I add my tributes to Lady Randerson and wish the Minister a happy new year. As welcome as the £100 million in capital is, it will not pay for staff, drugs, heating,…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillTo govern is to choose. That is what the Labour Government have done: they have chosen to implement an increase in national insurance contributions, with a 1.25 percentage point…06 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]There is a specific issue with the Gulf states. If people are potentially put to death for being gay in a state, would that debar a state entity or an individual in that…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]No, I would like an answer to this specific question, because the Minister gave a specific commitment with regard to what is in the Bill. I put a specific question based on what…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Does the noble Lord accept that it already takes place for certain individuals and entities with regard to the regulations that I pointed out, and that the Government already have…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I was unable to join your Lordships at Second Reading and have decided to add my name, and speak, only to amendments on areas where I have relevant knowledge. I speak as…18 Dec 2024HANSARDComplications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill [HL]If you are going to have end-to-end patient data, it needs to include A&E, GP, private, in-patient and out-patient. The statistical analysis that the Bill puts in place is a…13 Dec 2024HANSARDComplications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for this Bill. He may not realise that he has highlighted an important issue that needs to be addressed—not the limited and, I may…13 Dec 2024HANSARDNHS: Patients with AllergiesMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Ramsey of Wall Heath, for introducing this debate. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, and the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley,…12 Dec 2024