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Personal Care at Home Bill

I apologise profoundly that I was not here at the beginning of this debate—I was whipping through the previous group. Amendment 15 deals with the exercise of a discretion. Can the Minister tell me whether that refers to the reablement clause? I am not sure, from reading the Bill. My understanding is that the local authority might have a discretion when or not to insist on the reablement. If it does, I am not sure how that might relate, for example, to a stroke patient returning home with profound disabilities, who would probably not reach his maximum potential for several years, but whose carers might feel it was inappropriate to subject to reablement at that point. Can the Minister reassure us about how the discretion could be exercised in relation to reablement?