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Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) It has totally messed up the recruitment system for the British Army. - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) We have to improve recruitment. - Speech Link
3: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) Those who rose to the top of their professions in the armed forces now speak with the greatest wisdom - Speech Link
4: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) Have they seen the state of the national health service? - Speech Link
5: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) , and even with their physical health. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) support, reforming fit notes and working with employers to improve occupational health. - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) That is why, for example, we now have a crisis in recruitment to social care professions; we have stopped - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Despite the latest one being a former Health Secretary, he does not understand health and the role it - Speech Link
4: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Back in 2017, what did the Chancellor, then Health Secretary, announce? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) Some 200,000 of them are alleged to be unable to work because of ill health, including mental ill health - Speech Link
2: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) that of non-graduates—but that average is much lower due to the skewing effect of very highly paid professions - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) Student numbers are down, and some universities are facing recruitment problems, as we have heard. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Some issues that resulted from the report were that, in terms of limiting recruitment to certain courses - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Specifically, £185 million in 2023-24 and £285 million in 2024-25 will address recruitment and retention - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates Order 2024 - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) The Minister mentioned that a combination of the Health Act 1999 and the Health and Care Act 2022 has - Speech Link
2: Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab - Life peer) and Care Professions Council. - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (Con - Life peer) and Care Professions Council. - Speech Link
4: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) employees but operate independently of it.There is a real concern that if there is a shortage in GP recruitment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The veterinary industry, in which I work, has faced a recruitment challenge for the past few years. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Our jobcentres have a fantastic offer for employers, including help with job adverts and recruitment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Physician Associates - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) In November 2023, due to severe concerns around patient safety, the BMA called a halt to the recruitment - Speech Link
2: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) the additional roles reimbursement scheme: an NHS scheme that funds primary care networks to support recruitment - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) A number of years ago, we consulted on regulating these professions. We are now moving forward. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Dementia - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Browning (Con - Life peer) That requires not just parity of esteem between them but a reorientation of systems away from siloed professions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Greenfield (XB - Life peer) Indeed, as highlighted in this debate, we need parity in health and social care. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) More importantly, is this adding to the pressure on NHS mental health beds? - Speech Link
4: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) of vacancies within social care is estimated to be 192,000, because there is a difficulty with both recruitment - Speech Link
5: Baroness Murphy (XB - Life peer) In fact, most people in the health service have no idea what social care is. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Intergovernmental Relations Within the United Kingdom - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) Its health service is close to breaking point; its education system has plummeted down the rankings; - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (XB - Life peer) differences—for example, legal education has to be different in Scotland—but there are areas in the older professions - Speech Link
3: Lord Murphy of Torfaen (Lab - Life peer) devolve, and it is up to them now.I remember many occasions in Cabinet, discussing matters such as health - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (XB - Life peer) Belfast or Cardiff, are all subject to the provisions of CRaG, which involves the Civil Service Code recruitment - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Sector Pay 2024-25 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) and pay is also abundantly clear in the health service. - Speech Link
2: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) What precisely does that mean for those professions? - Speech Link
3: Bim Afolami (Con - Hitchin and Harpenden) As everybody in the House knows, health is fully devolved in Wales; the Welsh Government set health worker - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
NHS Winter Update - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None To put our health and social care system in a strong position heading into winter, this year we started - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) We have reached agreements with all the other professions—the nurses, physicians, consultants and specialist - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab - Life peer) In 2010, they inherited a health service that was running very well and met all the targets. - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) workforce plan was all about trying to put a long-term footing in place, one which looked at not just the recruitment - Speech Link