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Debate on bill on Monday, 1 February 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Thornton. The answering member was Earl Howe.


Personal Care at Home Bill

Personal Care at Home Bill. Lords second reading debate. Amendment debated and negatived on division (23 votes to 105). Original motion agrred to on question. Bill committed to a Committee of the Whole House.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
717 c12-23,37-85 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 717 c55-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confess to a number of interests. I am president of Alzheimer Scotland and of Scottish C...
Baroness Pitkeathley | 717 c53-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as vice-president of Carers UK. I want to give a carers’ perspective...
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Lord Turnbull | 717 c66-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot match the fervour of the analysis of the Bill made by the noble Baroness, Lady Mu...
Lord Carter of Coles | 717 c64-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as we have heard in this most interesting debate, this is a very difficult issue. The Gove...
Lord Low of Dalston | 717 c62-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not sure whether this is a modest or an immodest Bill, but it certainly has much to b...
Baroness Wilkins | 717 c59-62 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the disability organisations with the main interest in this Bill, I welcome its inten...
Lord Best | 717 c46-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as president of the Local Government Association—I here express supp...
Lord Joffe | 717 c48-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was a member of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care for the Elderly, which reported i...
Baroness Masham of Ilton | 717 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for explaining the Bill. Having recently heard the Secretary of State...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 717 c44-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Bill. For too long we have neglected the care particularly of elderly people...
Lord Warner | 717 c81 (Link to this contribution) At end insert "and that the Committee shall not meet until Her Majesty’s Government have completed, ...
Lord Lipsey | 717 c82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will not detain your Lordships for long but when the House was a good deal emptier than,...
Lord Warner | 717 c81-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take my chastisement from my noble friend like a man, but I do not resile from a single ...
Lord Butler of Brockwell | 717 c83 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I only want to add one sentence: for the reasons that have been given, I urge all those wh...
Lord Filkin | 717 c82-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. A number of us have been reflecting on whether the way that this ...
Baroness Thornton | 717 c83-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this stage I must set out very briefly a few issues responding to my noble friend Lord ...
Baroness Gale | 717 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as one of the last speakers in this debate tonight, I am very pleased to say that I suppor...
Baroness Barker | 717 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for introducing the Bill. Everyone who heard th...
Earl Howe | 717 c72-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is quite clear from everything we have heard today that, rather like one of those trick...
Baroness Thornton | 717 c76-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as we might have expected, we have had a lively and informed discussion about the importan...
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 717 c20-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to contribute to the debate on this short but extremely significant Bill. Fre...
Bishop of Norwich | 717 c22-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we must be the first generation in human history in which a substantial number of people r...
Lord Warner | 717 c37-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was a little uncomplimentary about this Bill in the Queen’s Speech debate on 26 November...
Lord Lipsey | 717 c39-42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with every word the noble Lord, Lord Warner, has said—not surprisingly, since we h...
Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 717 c16-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill has given me much to think about, which is why I have added my name to the speak...
Baroness Thornton | 717 c16 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl is right; it is £420 million. I spoke that figure back to front, and £420 million wil...
Earl Howe | 717 c16 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but I may have misheard her. Could she clarify what she ...
Baroness Thornton | 717 c12-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a small Bill with one substantive clause, but it will have great significance for ...
Baroness Thornton | 717 c12 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time.
Baroness Murphy | 717 c50-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I come at this Bill as a doctor who has for some 30 years worked in the community as a spe...
Subjects
Disability Care homes Carers Costs Community care Discharges Equality Housing Hospitals Finance Fees and charges Eligibility Facilities Home care services Local government Mental illness NHS Patients Personal savings Local government finance Public consultation Older people Public expenditure Palliative care Mental health services Scotland Waiting lists Training Social services
Legislation
Personal Care at Home Bill 2009-10
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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