Parliamentary Search

Topical debate on Thursday, 11 June 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Phil Hope. The answering member was Stephen O'Brien.

Carers

Topical debate on carers. (Relevant documents:Work and Pensions Select Committee fourth report of session 2007-08, HC 485, on Valuing and Supporting Carers, and the Government's response, First Special Report of the Committee, Session 2008-09, HC 105.)

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
493 c953-76 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2009-1905
Monday, 6 July 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Carers
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 493 c968 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am now going to call the Liberal Democrat spokesman, but I should just explain that under t...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c962 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we cannot afford not to do something about this issue? If carers ...
Show all contributions (47)
Stephen O'Brien | 493 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who chairs, admirably and with great credit from both sides of the ...
Anne McGuire | 493 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) Like other Members, I welcome this debate, particularly as it is happening during carers week. I wis...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c965 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the right hon. Lady was as encouraged as I was to hear the Minister talk earlier abou...
Paul Burstow | 493 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) It is estimated that our 6 million carers are worth £87 billion in the burden that they shift from o...
Anne McGuire | 493 c965 (Link to this contribution) I thoroughly agree with the hon. Gentleman. I recognise, however, that there is sometimes tension be...
Stephen O'Brien | 493 c965 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was making an interesting point, just before she answered the intervention by my hon. ...
Anne McGuire | 493 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) In my previous role I helped pilot individual budgets, which build on the direct payments experience...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c966 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way again. She said that carer's allowance was regar...
Anne McGuire | 493 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) Carer's allowance is an income replacement benefit, as is the state pension. We think of the state p...
Paul Burstow | 493 c969 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is rightly pressing the Minister to provide a timetable for the reform of the allowan...
Greg Mulholland | 493 c969 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which I should like to use to ask the Mini...
Angela Watkinson | 493 c970-2 (Link to this contribution) This important debate is taking place in carers week. Indeed, I shall be attending carers day in my ...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Upminster (Angela Watkinson) and I su...
Speaker | 493 c976 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry that the Minister has had to suffer a double whammy, but we must now proceed to th...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c973-5 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree; the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That is why, as I said, I was encouraged b...
Phil Hope | 493 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall respond to the debate. I thank all hon. Me...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c973 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, and I think that the lady my hon. Friend describes is one of those whom we should ...
Paul Burstow | 493 c973 (Link to this contribution) According to the last census, there were about 19,000 carers in my constituency, but we have identif...
Phil Hope | 493 c957 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the facts and figures about the hon. Gentleman's particular local authority, but I kno...
Andrew Murrison | 493 c957 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being very generous. He mentioned, in addition t...
Phil Hope | 493 c956 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman, speaking as a Liberal Democrat, is fully supportive of devolution an...
Paul Burstow | 493 c956 (Link to this contribution) The Minister talked about NHS funding and £150 million that has been allocated over two years, but w...
Stephen O'Brien | 493 c958-60 (Link to this contribution) It is good to have this opportunity to debate the issues affecting carers across the United Kingdom....
Speaker | 493 c958 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the Minister has used up his time allocation. He has been generous in allowi...
Phil Hope | 493 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. For those people—I shall not stereotype them—who find it less ea...
Fraser Kemp | 493 c957 (Link to this contribution) With the best will in the world, Members of Parliament will have met, and national carers week will ...
Phil Hope | 493 c956 (Link to this contribution) I did enjoy meeting, just before the debate, the Swale carers group, whose members are here to—I hop...
Jeremy Wright | 493 c960 (Link to this contribution) In support of my hon. Friend's case, does he think that part of the problem is the dissonance betwee...
Anne Main | 493 c955 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way on the point about support care packages, because one of my cons...
Phil Hope | 493 c954 (Link to this contribution) I shall happily write to the hon. Lady to give her those further details. The pathfinders scheme ope...
Phil Hope | 493 c955 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will understand that I cannot comment on a particular case, because I do not know the ...
Phil Hope | 493 c955 (Link to this contribution) I shall happily give way to the hon. Lady, although the debate is moving on.
Ann Clwyd | 493 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) My constituency has a very high percentage of disabled people, because of past industrial disease, a...
Phil Hope | 493 c955 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification. I shall move on to respite care, because we know that caring ...
Phil Hope | 493 c956 (Link to this contribution) I shall come on to allowances and benefits in a few moments, but my right hon. Friend is right to su...
Derek Wyatt | 493 c956 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for this morning seeing the Swale carers group, whose members are listening in ...
Phil Hope | 493 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of carers." I am pleased to open this deba...
Angela Watkinson | 493 c954 (Link to this contribution) The Minister referred to extended family pathfinders, and I was waiting for a little more expansion ...
Fraser Kemp | 493 c954 (Link to this contribution) Of course we all welcome training for professionals in the field. In common with many other hon. Mem...
Phil Hope | 493 c954 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to that matter. I will say more about it in a moment. I kn...
Greg Mulholland | 493 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will certainly keep my comments within that time. I welcome this h...
Angela Watkinson | 493 c973 (Link to this contribution) I agree that carers do not often fit readily into a definable box. The right hon. Member for Stirlin...
Anne Main | 493 c955 (Link to this contribution) I should not like to leave the Minister with the wrong impression that the care home was at fault; i...
Paul Burstow | 493 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I know that t...
Subjects
Carers Finance NHS Older people Carer's allowance
Link
View this Parliamentary proceeding on www.publications.parliament.uk