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Older People's Rights (Health Care)

I accept that there is a legal debate, but I am not a lawyer, so I cannot contribute to that debate. I acknowledged in my speech that there are challenges in trying to adapt the Human Rights Act in this case, but does the hon. Gentleman agree that the general public will find certain situations hard to accept? For example, if two people are in the same care home and one of them has been means-tested and is publicly funded, whereas the other does not qualify and has to pay, that may mean that one of them is covered by the Act and one is not. Never mind legal reality, common sense says that that simply is not fair.