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Queen's Speech — Debate (5th Day) (10 Dec 2008)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it is a pleasure to open today's debate on the gracious Speech. I am particularly pleased that I am able to share the task with my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. The issues that we are debating today—help with housing, effective transport systems, regeneration, a stronger voice for local people and democracy, and protecting and enhancing our natural...

Planning Bill (18 Nov 2008)

Baroness Andrews: ...to my amendment, which I shall say nothing more about. I will answer quite a lot of the questions asked by my noble friend Lord Howarth by referring to the letter which my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath sent to the noble Lord, Lord Reay, but I will have to write him about others because they were even more detailed than some of the answers that he received. I will do my best not to...

Planning Bill (6 Nov 2008)

Baroness Andrews: ...be taken into account as part of the appraisal process and addressed as appropriate in the NPS. Once we start identifying bits of policy here and there, we are open to what my noble friend Lord Hunt referred to as the list principle, refracting policy through individual policies. That is not what the NPS is about: it is about integration. Under Clause 5(6), Ministers, "must give reasons...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (5 Jul 2007)

Baroness Andrews: ...noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, is absolutely right that in the 16 proposals there are none involving type C proposals to cross existing boundaries. I remind the Committee that my noble friend Lord Hunt, who did such a splendid job while I sat silently coughing beside him, told the House at Second Reading that we have no plans for a further round of restructuring. He also said that the Bill...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (5 Jul 2007)

Baroness Andrews: At Second Reading, my noble friend Lord Hunt made it clear that we are in no way anticipating a future round of invitations. Yet we have to allow for the eventuality that there may need to be an invitation following from changes being made. We do not want to close off that option; it is quite right to provide some flexibility for that in the Bill. Since we are allowing for the other two...

Decentralisation (30 Jun 2005)

Baroness Andrews: ...which may be based on faith, on ethnicity and on interest. My noble friend Lord Griffiths gave us some very good examples of ecumenical activity across his patch, as did my noble friend Lord Hunt, when he mentioned that we are much more practised now in the theory and practice of community development. We know about community development. We have the animateurs on the ground, but we need...

Mental Capacity Bill (1 Feb 2005)

Baroness Andrews: ...by the noble Earl, perhaps I may use the language of the convention itself. Why have we framed this in the way it has been framed? Part of that question has been answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt when he explained the difficulty of determining what is "significant". Why do we not use the term "exceptional" and follow the Biomedicine Convention? I understand that the convention does not...

Mental Capacity Bill (1 Feb 2005)

Baroness Andrews: ...strong. I shall come to the safeguards in a moment. I shall try to reassure the Committee about the purpose of research. That has been very well addressed by my noble friends Lord Turnberg and Lord Hunt. I remind the Committee what we said. My noble friend Lord Warner cited the code of practice, which states: "Research has been defined as an activity that attempts to derive new knowledge...

Education Bill [HL] (13 Jan 2005)

Baroness Andrews: ...is a clear sense among noble Lords that we are somehow giving parents less or even inadequate opportunity to make their views known. Let me reassure noble Lords, especially my noble friend Lord Hunt, that that is absolutely not the case. The whole thrust of what we have been trying to do with parents in our school improvement policies over the past seven years is to bring them into a...

"General (6 Nov 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...terms. Very unusually, Hansard misheard what I said in Committee. I referred to the Secretary of State not as a gamekeeper, but as a gatekeeper. It was as though I had drifted into the debate on hunting, with which I was extremely glad not to be involved. There are enough descriptions of that benighted individual flying around for him not to be a gamekeeper as well. Members of the...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (13 Oct 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...difference in the roles between the Secretary of State and the regulator. I hope that I can also reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Carnegy, about the process. I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hunt for having anticipated what I wanted to say about the Secretary of State and his role, because we have come to the part of the Bill which addresses the process and the distribution of roles...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Domiciliary Oxygen Services (12 Jun 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...out of date, both in terms of the service offered to patients and its cost effectiveness. It was against this background that the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, directed that a review of the domiciliary oxygen service should take place. This review is now complete and we are ready to move forward to create a modernised and integrated...

Specialised Health Services (8 Apr 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...everyone who has spoken this evening agrees is an extremely important issue. I am particularly grateful to noble Lords who spoke with such affection, as well as respect, about my noble friend Lord Hunt. I certainly echo everything that has been said. I myself miss him very much at this moment. I am shuffling my papers in a desperate attempt to introduce some coherence into my thoughts. I...

Lords Amendment (27 Mar 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...are all agreed that the Bill is the better for it and it sends a strong powerful signal to those implementing the Bill that Parliament is fully behind it. I also pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath who carried the Bill through four-fifths of its passage and responded with his usual commitment and intelligence—and slight scepticism at times—but always in good...

Lords Amendment (27 Mar 2003)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their generous response. I do so particularly on behalf of my noble friend Lord Hunt, who put tremendous effort into the Bill. He is very happy that we have been able to achieve a workable outcome. Noble Lords in the Chamber have taken the Bill apart and to heart in different ways and I am grateful to them. I shall try to answer some of the questions, the...

Health Visitors (18 Mar 2003)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, as the noble Lord will understand, for many reasons I wish that my noble friend Lord Hunt were here to answer the Question this afternoon. In my view, he was an outstanding Minister. Health visitors will continue to play an important part in our measures to improve the nation's health and to tackle health inequalities. They have a crucial role in helping to deliver the Government's...

Health Visitors (18 Mar 2003)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, the noble Lord will want me to make a robust response in place of my noble friend Lord Hunt. I cannot agree with him. We took the line that we did on the order to ensure that rather than have health visitors in the title of the third part of the register there should be a broader commitment to developing the public health nursing profession. As the noble Lord in particular will...

Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill (10 Mar 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...linked to the SAP. I understand why the noble Baroness makes such a strong case for this proposal, but it is not necessary because the provision is so clear in the Bill. When my noble friend Lord Hunt wrote last week to the noble Baroness with details of how the Department of Health emphasises to the field the importance of adherence to the SAP, he spelt it out in some detail. Because of...

Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill (17 Feb 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...of care homes earlier in the debate. We obviously dispute some of the figures, extrapolations, which have been used. I should explain two matters to the noble Lord. First, as my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath said, we are not simply talking about care homes. There has been a loss of beds but we are looking to much more flexible and appropriate forms of provision. Intermediate care...

Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill (17 Feb 2003)

Baroness Andrews: ...clearer opportunity for patients, their carers and their families to be involved generally. They can, when appropriate, refer to independent or specialist advocacy services. My noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath dealt with the question asked by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, about self-funders. He said that some patients may decide that they do not want to be assessed by social...