Ministerial statement on Monday, 31 October 2016, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Freud.

Improving Lives: Green Paper

Lords statement on the publication of the Improving Lives Green Paper.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 776 cc481-491
Session: 2016-17
Department: Department for Work and Pensions
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper
Monday, 31 October 2016
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Proceeding contributions: Lord Freud | 776 cc481-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat a Statement made by my right honourable ...; Lord McKenzie of Luton | 776 cc483-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by thanking the Minister for repeating the Statement, although it is a Statemen...; Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 776 cc484-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I also thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. We on these Benches are pleased ...; Lord Freud | 776 cc485-6 (Link to this contribution)
I thank both noble Lords for their very thoughtful contributions and for their general welcome, w...; Lord Low of Dalston | 776 cc486-7 (Link to this contribution)
I too thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and would like to add my word of welcome for...; Lord Freud | 776 c487 (Link to this contribution)
I very much regret having to say that we are not in a position to look again at that measure. The...; Lord Fink | 776 c487 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what is my noble friend the Minister doing to help employers take on disabled people?; Lord Freud | 776 c487 (Link to this contribution)
It is clear that many people who happen to have a disability have immense talents and valuable sk...; Lord Blunkett | 776 c487 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it would be unfair to use the old joke, “This is déjà vu all over again”, because this ...; Lord Freud | 776 c487 (Link to this contribution)
My right honourable friend in the other place, the Secretary of State, took some pleasure in quot...; Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 776 c488 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the Statement and I completely understand that PIP is not part of this Green ...; Lord Freud | 776 c488 (Link to this contribution)
I know that the noble Baroness has very strong feelings about this. At her urging, I did make sig...; Baroness Browning | 776 c488 (Link to this contribution)
I have great respect for what my noble friend is trying to do, particularly in getting people wit...; Lord Freud | 776 c488 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Baroness is right. One of the areas of greatest concern is people who have learning dif...; Baroness Masham of Ilton | 776 c488 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, how is the Minister going to see that the various departments work together and not in ...; Lord Freud | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
That is exactly the kind of focus that pulling the two systems together should start to address. ...; Baroness Manzoor | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I very much welcome the Green Paper, which is definitely the right direction for us to ...; Lord Freud | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, some of the technologies that one sees are remarkable. The noble Lord, Lord Low, who is not ...; Lord Farmer | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as we have heard, this Green Paper is to be recommended. It will obviously need some br...; Lord Freud | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
We have deliberately designed this Green Paper to ask for responses from a lot of key areas. Nobl...; Baroness Jolly | 776 c489 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, can I ask the Minister not to forget education, because the transition for young people...; Lord Freud | 776 c490 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Baroness is absolutely right that these transitions need to be managed carefully. It is...; Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 776 c490 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, thinking of young people with learning disabilities, how easy will it be under the new ...; Lord Freud | 776 c490 (Link to this contribution)
Youngsters are able to go to other areas to work. I think that the noble Lord must be referring t...; Lord Sterling of Plaistow | 776 c490 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have just come from next door, where there has been a gathering on autism. I have two...; Lord Freud | 776 c490 (Link to this contribution)
One of the problems with autism is, clearly, that many—too many—of those people are not in the wo...; Baroness Scott of Bybrook | 776 cc490-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome this Green Paper not just for myself but for my daughter, Sarah. My daughter ...; Lord Freud | 776 c491 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my noble friend. We will get on with it. We have the Access to Work Programme to help her...
Subjects: Disability Business Employment Health Health services Employment schemes Social security Young people Work experience Statutory sick pay Medical certificates Employment and support allowance Work capability assessment
Contains statistics: Yes
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Improving Lives: Green Paper

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