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Opposition day on Monday, 11 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Hunt. The answering member was Ivan Lewis.

Carers

Carers. Fourteenth opposition day debate (part 2). Motion negatived on division (198 to 291). Amendment agreed on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
461 c597-626 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c599 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. There is a huge challenge ahead in terms of how we finance social care ...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c600 (Link to this contribution) Given the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, will he withdraw the Conservative party’s opposition to electron...
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Jeremy Hunt | 461 c598-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I am happy to praise the Motor Neurone Disease Association be...
David Drew | 461 c599 (Link to this contribution) There was a consensus following the Sutherland report, and it is disappointing that that was broken ...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House recognises the vital contribution that the UK’s six million carers ma...
Lembit Opik | 461 c598 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the Motor Neurone Disease Association would agree with his view ...
Speaker | 461 c597 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the second debate on the Opposition motions. I should announce to the House that Mr. ...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c600 (Link to this contribution) Let me put the Under-Secretary right: we have no opposition to electronic data sharing when it happe...
Anne McGuire | 461 c600 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman and his party object strongly to data sharing between the Department of Hea...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c600 (Link to this contribution) If there is a good reason, such as simplifying the complicated assessment processes, we would be hap...
Bill Wiggin | 461 c601 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, there are also many children who care for their disabled parents. Are they expec...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. If he had attended the debate earlier this year about the l...
Gary Streeter | 461 c602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case and I totally agree with him about streamlining the benefit...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c601 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I am not surprised by that figure, as there is a total ...
Mike Weir | 461 c601 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also accept something that I have encountered in dealing with carers in my c...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c601 (Link to this contribution) I would agree, but one of the reasons why many people do not want to claim it is that the form is so...
Anne McGuire | 461 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), I too, Madam Deputy Speaker, wou...
Tim Loughton | 461 c617-20 (Link to this contribution) The debate has been short, but concise and of high quality. It is a shame that more of the hon. Memb...
Greg Clark | 461 c617 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the powerful and reasoned contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for R...
Jeremy Wright | 461 c615-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble), because I want to con...
Sally Keeble | 461 c614-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that the example that I am citing is especially poignant because of the nature of the family...
Nadine Dorries | 461 c614 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the story that she is articulately relaying is repeated by carers to M...
Sally Keeble | 461 c612-4 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief, because I recognise that other people want to contribute to the debate. I welcome t...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c612 (Link to this contribution) In that case, the situation is even worse because I used a link from a Government website. I had ass...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c612 (Link to this contribution) May I point out to the hon. Lady that the helpline does not exist yet? I do not know which helpline ...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and I shall return briefly to that subject later in my comm...
Speaker | 461 c626 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wish to hear the hon. Gentleman’s point of order.
Lord Soames of Fletching | 461 c626 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 461 c626 (Link to this contribution) The occupant of the Chair has many responsibilities, but Ministers’ replies are entirely Ministers’ ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 461 c626 (Link to this contribution) Today, I tabled a parliamentary question to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affa...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c621 (Link to this contribution) Don’t ring us, we’ll ring you.
Speaker | 461 c626 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will Members who are leaving the Chamber please do so as quickly and quietly as possible? Wil...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) As part of the review of the needs of carers, we will listen—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman refe...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the Minister give a policy commitment about reducing the bureaucracy of social se...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) In a moment I shall talk about demographic change, which is the reason why, in the next two decades,...
Philip Dunne | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of the census and listening to the organisations listed by the Minister at the beginn...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c605 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, but localism—in which the Conservative party also believes—means that we do not im...
Sally Keeble | 461 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend confirm that a key Government recommendation was that local councils should appo...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) As part of the review that we are about to undertake, that is exactly the kind of issue that we need...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c602-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““review”” to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof:"“...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c602 (Link to this contribution) No one has done more than my hon. Friend to campaign for respite care provision. We made significant...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the chance to debate these issues today, at the beginning of carers week. Although there h...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c606-9 (Link to this contribution) Carers want to be signposted in an appropriate way, as my right hon. Friend says. We are developing...
Annette Brooke | 461 c610 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend concerned about what might happen to young carers when the school leaving age is r...
Mark Williams | 461 c610 (Link to this contribution) One of my hon. Friends talked about young adults and the challenges facing them as carers. Is my hon...
Jeremy Wright | 461 c605 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that all carers would like to be helped to find their way through the problems that becomi...
Hywel Francis | 461 c605 (Link to this contribution) As chair of the all-party parliamentary carers group, I want to record my thanks to the official Opp...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c605 (Link to this contribution) Let me say gently that this is the Government who introduced a national carers strategy in the first...
Ivan Lewis | 461 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) If there is a vacancy for such a role in this Government, I think that my hon. Friend would be an ex...
Jeremy Hunt | 461 c604 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has talked about the number of people who are likely to become carers. Can he explain w...
David Leslie Taylor | 461 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) I launched north-west Leicestershire carers week in the Marlene Reid centre, Coalville, this morning...
Anne McGuire | 461 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) Something like that. I was especially delighted that my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, Nor...
Sandra Gidley | 461 c610 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. She has a long commitment to the subject of young carers, an...
Subjects
Children Benefits rules Carers Government assistance New deal schemes Social services Social security benefits Young people
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