"My Lords, does the Minister agree that sometimes the most effective integration of care is around the decisions and choices of the care recipient themselves? To that purpose, would she agree that the NHS should be pursuing personal health budgets that can be combined with direct payments from social care …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, I draw attention to my registered interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum and the Oxfordshire Development Forum. I emphasise that my views on these issues are entirely my own.
A number of us are taking forward many of the issues that we discussed during the passage …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, the Minister will recall the table to the spending review which lists the departmental expenditure limits. Within that there is a line for the reserve, which I assume is essentially the contingency reserve. I recall that, back in 2023-24, the contingency reserve was over £9 billion, and that …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. I always feel that I learn things by participating in debates with him and following him in debates, but I am also grateful to him for raising this interesting issue.
"Before the Minister moves on to another subject, given the particular circumstances in Scotland, which the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, referred to, and the many islands, if the Scottish Government wished to make a service agreement with the European Union for this purpose, but the United Kingdom Government had chosen …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, I know many of us who were on the International Agreements Committee at an earlier stage, when we were looking at the difficulties of negotiating a deal with India, realise that it is a significant achievement and very welcome. It is not, however, as comprehensive as we had …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"The Grimstone rule is essentially that the Government commit that, if our International Agreements Committee said that the treaty should be debated by this House, that debate should take place before the Government proceed to ratification...." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to intervene briefly just to agree with my noble friend Lady Coffey and the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. I will not repeat their points, but I think it is important for us to ask the question of whether it is right to use a debate on …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"I am grateful. I draw the House’s attention to my register of interests. Is it the Government’s intention to use the powers in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, when enacted, to bring in product requirements based on ISO 42001 relating to AI governance, as a mechanism to bring us …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech