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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2022
GPs: Anti-depressants and Alcohol

"My Lords, I echo the words of my noble friend that GPs are absolutely critical to sorting out these issues, and the Dame Carol Black review on overprescribing presumably will look into that too. Does he agree that one of the problems that urgently needs to be sorted is the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Care Homes: Energy Costs

"My Lords, will my noble friend look into the situation of care homes, whether they are in the private sector or not, that have not currently participated in the government handouts to help with energy costs? Second home owners have had discounts on their bills, but there has been no …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 05 Sep 2022
Integrated Care Boards

"My Lords, could my noble friend update the House on the scheme for bringing in overseas workers to fill the gaps in social care that have opened up so seriously over the last year or two? There have been suggestions that the salary level—which currently does not allow sufficient numbers …..."
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Written Question
Social Services: Migrant Workers
Friday 15th July 2022

Asked by: Baroness Altmann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many social care workers earning more than £20,480 they estimate will be recruited from overseas as a result of the new immigration visa rules; and what proportion of staff vacancies are expected to be filled further to those rules.

Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)

No specific estimate has been made. However, we are working with Skills for Care and the Home Office to produce guidance and seminars to equip adult social care providers with necessary tools and information to recruit successfully from overseas.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2022
Coronavirus: New Cases

"My Lords, does my noble friend agree that we have lived with flu all our lives? I completely agree with his assertion that if this illness is not proving more deadly than illnesses we have lived with for a long time, what would be the purpose of upsetting the economic …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Jun 2022
Social Care: Adults

"My Lords, I urge my noble friend, in light of the extraordinary number of vacancies in the social care sector—more and more staff are leaving to join other sectors—to urge the Government to revisit the Immigration Rules that do not allow overseas care workers, who could fill those gaps, to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 07 Jun 2022
GP Access

"My Lords, my noble friend mentioned pensions. I urge him to speak to his colleagues in the Treasury about the own goal being created by the pension rules. Doctors are being hit with an annual allowance, but the lifetime allowance is then driving early retirement, with a simple 20-times multiple …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Health and Care Bill

"My Lords, I follow the noble Baronesses, Lady Brinton and Lady Campbell, and will confine my brief remarks to social care, which I have long worked on. Sadly, the measures in the Bill will not rise to the challenge as required to sort out the social care system in our …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Health and Care Bill

"My Lords, I rise briefly to support Amendment 141, which I would have added my name to had my noble friend Lord Lansley not done so himself. As he is not here, from these Benches I add my support for the deletion of Clause 155. As an adviser to the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 02 Feb 2022
Personal Protective Equipment: Accounting

"My Lords, it is understandable that in an emergency, huge amounts of taxpayers’ money may need to be written off for contracts that were not viable. I commend the Government on all they have done for the pandemic, but would my noble friend agree with me that, given that this …..."
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