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Personal Care at Home Bill

I am clear, Sir Michael, that I can, thankfully, trust the Chair to do just that. It is important to ensure clarity because the reablement process is, as the Minister made clear, in the hands of and, in many ways, in the gift of the local authority, the providers. In the provision of wheelchairs, for example, people may fall between various providers. I am anxious about the trigger mechanism that gives people their expectation and their entitlement, at a time when they are very vulnerable and need the greatest possible certainty, together with their carers who, as the Minister rightly said, will continue to be part of the process. It would be useful to register our concern that the word "undergoing" is not sufficiently clear in the present drafting, and press the amendment to a Division, not least so that anyone reading our proceedings with care in another place will be able to make sure that the trigger mechanism is properly analysed. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Amendment proposed: 18, page 2, line 1, leave out 'undergoing' and insert 'undertaking to undergo'.—(Mr. Stephen O'Brien.) Question put, That the amendment be made. The House divided: Ayes 183, Noes 285.