Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [HL]

Debate between Baroness Finlay of Llandaff and Lord McKenzie of Luton

Report: 1st sitting: House of Lords
Tuesday 24th October 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff]

I am most grateful to the Minister, particularly for those final phrases in her speech, and to all noble Lords who have spoken and contributed to an extremely rich debate. It has become evident that this is not just about vulnerable people, but about everybody who can find themselves in a vulnerable circumstance. There should be no stigmatisation of any sort; this could happen to anybody.

The Bill seems to be a good one, aiming to look after the whole population. Of course, it needs to look after people in bad times as well as good. That is the purpose of the amendment: to have better public outcomes, not just when capability can be increased, but when it cannot be, with services then adapting to meet the needs of the people they are there for. That is what a community is all about.

We can go away and look at the wording again, to think about whether it can go somewhere else or be adjusted slightly in the Bill, then come back at Third Reading.

[Lord McKenzie of Luton]

I just want to press the point made by the noble Baroness about Third Reading. If we could come back to it at Third Reading, that would be good.

[Baroness Finlay of Llandaff]

Through being able to come back at Third Reading, we have the assurance that we can tailor the Bill to try to get it absolutely right and to meet all the needs that have been outlined during this rich debate. Because of that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.