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Health and Social Care Bill

The Minister’s answer was, to me, opaque. It may be only my lack of little grey cells, but I lost her. I am seeing surreptitious nods from around the Committee Room, telling me that she was lost in a sea of verbiage. The one thing that I do not think that she has addressed—and I was extremely pleased to get support from the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay—was the very serious problem of the elderly, who are in the evening of their lives and very vulnerable and may not even have relatives. We know the tragic stories of old people who are never visited, and so on, which is the result of keeping people alive longer. We know all the reasons—but, consequently, they become more and more vulnerable and more and more frightened. They are frightened to complain. I do not think that the Minister addressed that point at all. I may be doing her an injustice but, again, I notice little nods around the Room. Will she please, before Report, really look at the point of the vulnerable old being terrified of having their tenancy terminated?