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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, the amendment this morning from the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, to the noble and learned Lord’s amendment asks us, when we note the progress of scrutiny today, to recognise the recommendations and findings of both House of Lords Committees: the Constitution Committee and the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. The Constitution Committee is very concerned that, as...
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My Lords, I will speak to my amendments in this group. They aim to tighten the recording rules in Clause 7 and would make them even tighter than the seven-day limit proposed by the noble Baroness—to whom I am very grateful for her remarks. I propose that, where the discussion is with a practitioner in the patient’s own GP practice, the record of the relevant discussions and assessment is...
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The noble and learned Lord’s Amendment 669A refers to Sections 8(7), 11(9) and 26(2), but that is only for medical practitioners, it is not for other medical professionals. It is for that reason I tabled my Amendment 664, so that anybody had to opt in to training for this, not just the medical practitioners, which I am very glad to see the noble and learned Lord’s amendment accepts. It is...
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Somebody who is employed by an agency, or an agency nurse, may not have the whole provision of the text in front of them, and they may not be encouraged to look into the exemptions for conscientious or other reasons about which we have heard. It is for that reason, if it is on the face of the Bill, that anybody involved in the medical or social care of frail people should know that they are...
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May I check something regarding my Amendment 664? Given that the noble and learned Lord insists that no person will be under any duty to perform or provide for an act under this measure, will that apply to participation in training, since training is not a duty to do something?
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many migrants who have arrived in the UK in the past three years for which figures are available are (1) overseas students who are taking (a) undergraduate degrees, (b) post-graduate degrees, and (c) other courses, and (2) the families or dependents of overseas students; what proportion of legal migrants each of those categories represents; and what...
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To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of migrants arriving in the UK in the past five years have tried to seek asylum.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to encourage the Bank of England to measure money growth and report annually on the quantity of money, so that steps can be taken to maintain price stability and prevent inflation.
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To ask His Majesty's Government which EU financial services laws have been repealed to promote the international competitiveness and growth of that sector and its contribution to the UK economy under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023.
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