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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, it is a pleasure and an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady White, and her excellent maiden speech. I congratulate her on her appointment and her debut outing here in the Chamber and say how much all of us look forward to her future contributions. I am sure her family, not for the first time, is extremely proud of her today. On that subject, if noble Lords ever worry about the...
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My Lords, I am sure that the vast majority of noble Lords would agree that genuine equality of opportunity in academia and more widely requires a commitment to fair application procedures and continuing concerted efforts to address the obstacles that prevent different groups from accessing opportunities. This includes racial and ethnic groups, lower-income groups and groups from outside of...
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My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, as always, and I welcome the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Portsmouth. I welcome the main proposals of this Budget: some as important measures to combat inequality and support households; others as necessary responses to what remains a very difficult time for the British economy. As a social democrat, I applaud the...
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My Lords, I add my praise for Richard Hughes and his outstanding public service, mentioned by the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, the Minister and others. I have two questions for the Minister about the Treasury-OBR relationship going forward, learning the lessons from what has happened. First, the Treasury was clearly very annoyed by the OBR’s letter to the Treasury Select Committee,...
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To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to remedy skills shortages and workforce gaps in the provision of adult social care.
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I thank my noble friend for that Answer. I draw the House’s attention to my interests in the register. Social care workers do an extraordinary job, including with my own mother, but there are huge skills shortages in this sector, estimated at over 130,000 at present. Partly as a result of that, the sector is dependent on foreign workers, who make up 20% to 25% of the workforce, yet last...
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My Lords, there is much to welcome in this spending review. Can I especially welcome the £39 billion of investment in social and affordable housing that the noble Baroness mentioned earlier on? Shelter yesterday called this a game-changer. The National Housing Federation said it was the most ambitious affordable homes programme in decades. All of that is extremely encouraging. I note that...
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