Public Services: Security of Provision

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon Excerpts

Wednesday 19th October 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Brookman]

My Lords—

[Baroness Royall of Blaisdon]

My Lords, there are all sorts of pressures on Ministers’ diaries, especially at the moment, but does the Minister agree that it was not acceptable for his honourable friend Mr Burstow to cite diary pressures as a reason for not meeting the financially insecure Southern Cross for discussions, when these were repeatedly asked for by the company and when it was providing a public service by providing homes for 31,000 vulnerable people?