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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Skills for Growth (11 Nov 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: This statement heralds a welcome refocusing of activity. Does my right hon. Friend accept, however, that creating new places for science, technology and engineering is only half the equation—the other half is getting kids to want to fill those places? That will happen only when society holds these professions in greater esteem and we do more to inspire children in these subjects. How do...

Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video

Stephen Ladyman: With the single caveat that my right hon. Friend should revisit the decision about Dungeness, I warmly welcome his statement today. Can he assure me that he will talk to those colleagues responsible for higher education to ensure that we create the training places to produce British graduates in physics and engineering to man this industry in the future?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Higher Education (3 Nov 2009) has video

Stephen Ladyman: I welcome the statement, particularly the part that is likely to lead to more science and engineering graduates in the long term. Does my right hon. Friend agree that sometimes the problem is not the lack of available places and courses for science and engineering so much as the lack of available students who want to study those subjects? What more can we do to encourage more young people to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (2 Nov 2009) has video

Stephen Ladyman: As a Member with a scientific background, I would be the first to say that science must inform the decisions that it can inform. However, does my right hon. Friend agree that many parts of complex decisions cannot be measured or tested scientifically and may require a more subjective judgment that Ministers have to apply? Will he write to other scientific advisers in the Department to make...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: If the insurance had to be paid while one was working, which seemed to be the suggestion of the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. Dorrell), and if it were made compulsory, how would it differ from national insurance, which is effectively just another tax?

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I sometimes think that I am a little bit too naive for this job. When I saw on the Order Paper the subject that the Opposition had chosen for debate, I thought, "Ah, they realise that the Green Paper is coming out, and they want to make a contribution on it in a debate." It was only when I got to the Chamber that I realised that the debate was intended to be a statement to the people of the...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: In one moment. I was just about to be rude to the Liberal Democrats; let me do that first, and then I will certainly give way. The Liberal Democrats have at least changed their position now, but for a number of years they gave the worst of misdirections to the people of this country by implying that social care could be made free sustainably; they did so in the past couple of general...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I am not happy if one single pensioner is in poverty, but I know that, thanks to this Government, far fewer are living on low incomes than in 1997, because there is pension credit and winter fuel payments. I have not been to Norwich in the run-up to the by-election, but I have knocked on an awful lot of doors in the past few months, and poorer pensioners, to a man and woman, say to me that...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I certainly think that we need to bring funding for the NHS and for social care together in various ways. I was going to make the following point later anyway, but will make it now instead: we already have a model that could help us to do that. We do not need to reinvent the wheel, because we have done the same thing for children. Children's trusts have been created to bring together all the...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: Very quickly, because I do not have any more injury time.

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I am absolutely not suggesting that, but many people live in suburbs and around towns and are happy to be urban dwellers. Some people may be happy to move from rural to urban communities, and if they want to do so that is fine, but we can still organise services differently around rural communities to minimise cost. Telecare is one option. Where are our proposals to ensure that every older...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I am following the right hon. Gentleman's argument with care. He is absolutely right: that is the elephant in the room. That gap can be funded only from public spending or from people's savings—largely, the money they have locked away in their property. Although he may be justified in criticising the Government for not facing the elephant in the room, are not his hon. Friends, who...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: The hon. Gentleman seems to have missed the legislation that allowed the local NHS to create care trusts, in which social care and NHS funds are indeed pulled together and spent exactly as he suggests.

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: I am sure that my hon. Friend has not forgotten—perhaps the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning) has—that this Government made it compulsory for councils to offer a direct payment instead of providing care directly; every one of those people in Norwich could ask for the cash instead of the care service, and organise their care themselves. Equally, the Government...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Caring for the Elderly (15 Jul 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: The hon. Gentleman proposes fixing council tax for two years, which will result in councils having less money to spend. Does he not appreciate that councils are responsible for the adult social care budget, which is the only part of their budget that is not ring-fenced, and that they will therefore look to that budget for savings?

Business of the House (25 Jun 2009) has video

Stephen Ladyman: By the middle of this century, four times as many older people will need care, and there is a growing funding gap in respect of the care needs of people with complex learning disabilities. Will my right hon. and learned Friend promise that when the social care Green Paper is published shortly, which addresses those incredibly difficult challenges, we will have a significant amount of time in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: European Council (23 Jun 2009)

Stephen Ladyman: The poisonous influence of Iran continues to be spread around the middle east even as its Government oppress their own people and press ahead with plans to build nuclear weapons. What firm plans does the EU have to escalate the pressure on the Iranian Government to make sure they never get hold of nuclear weapons?