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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2025
NHS: Wheelchair Services

"My Lords, can my noble friend comment on the problem, which carers often report, of being unable to return the wheelchair to its source when it is no longer needed?..."
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Written Question
Respite Care: Carers
Friday 22nd September 2023

Asked by: Baroness Pitkeathley (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to their People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper, published on 1 December 2021, what progress they have made on their delivery of the £25 million fund in support of unpaid carers.

Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Government is finalising its plans for how we will deliver up to an additional £25 million that we committed to in People at the Heart of Care to support unpaid carers and hopes to share plans shortly.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Care Homes: Severely Disabled People

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that some care charities have been forced to evict severely disabled people from their care homes because of disputes with local authorities about fees...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Care Homes: Severely Disabled People

"I thank the Minister for that Answer, but I cannot say that any of it was a surprise to me. Will he acknowledge that this is just the latest manifestation of a long-standing problem? For years, the social care system for adults with complex disabilities has been held together by …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2022
Social Care Sector: Staff Shortages

"My Lords, does the Minister agree that the more problems there are with paid workers in social care, the more difficulties fall on the nearly 10 million unpaid carers. Of those who are receiving the carer’s allowance, 40% say that they are already in debt and not sure how they …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Long Covid

"I offer warm congratulations to my noble friend on securing this debate and on the way in which she introduced it. She and other noble Lords will know that, by the time you get to this stage of a debate, there is not much new to say. However, I have …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 08 Nov 2022
NHS: Discharge to Assess Policy

"My Lords, I hope the Minister will forgive me for correcting his figures but the figure we generally use for unpaid carers now is nearer 10 million since the pandemic. In view of the truly shocking statistics in the Carers UK report that was published today—I am glad that the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Skills for Care Report

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take in response to the report by Skills for Care The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England 2022, published on 11 October, which shows that there are 165,000 vacancies in the social care workforce …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Skills for Care Report

"I thank the Minister. I expected him to mention the £500 million workforce fund, of course, but he will know that it has been described as a drop in the ocean and that councils are calling for far more to be pumped into better pay and recruitment in the social …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2022
Care Homes: Energy Costs

"My Lords, to add to the problems of care homes to which noble Lords have referred is the report in today’s newspapers that the new Secretary of State for Health intends to use them as places to discharge people who cannot have a social care package in their own homes. …..."
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