Baroness Barker: My Lords, can the Leader of the House explain why employers in freeports are exempt from paying the levy for some employees?
Baroness Barker: My Lords, a number of local authorities, including Croydon, are insolvent. Have the Government or the Minister’s department made an assessment of the impact of that on the viability of care providers and the capacity of people who need social care, and are entitled to it under the Care Act, to get the services that they need?
Baroness Barker: We now come to the 20 minutes allocated for Back-Bench questions. I ask that questions and answers be brief so that we can call the maximum number of speakers.
Baroness Barker: My Lords, throughout the pandemic, epidemiologists have been clearly telling us that when restrictions are eased, there will inevitably be further outbreaks, some of them localised. For the past 15 months, test, trace and isolate has been a shambles. Can the Minister explain what will be done over the summer to improve test, trace and isolate and improve the information going, in real time,...
Baroness Barker: My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 87.
Baroness Barker: I have received notice from the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, who wishes to speak after the Minister.
Baroness Barker: If the noble Baroness wishes to speak to Amendment 40A, she is entitled to do so.
Baroness Barker: We come now to Committee on the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill. I will call Members to speak in the order listed during the debate on each group. I invite Members, including Members in the Chamber, to email the clerk if they wish to speak after the Minister. I will call Members to speak in order of request. The groupings are binding, and a participant who wishes to press an amendment other...
Baroness Barker: I have received requests to speak after the Minister from two noble Lords. First, I call the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford.
Baroness Barker: We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 260B. Anyone who wishes to press this or anything else in this group to a Division must make that clear in the debate. Clause 109: Use of forest risk commodities in commercial activity
Baroness Barker: We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 161. Anyone wishing this press this or anything else in the group to a Division must make that clear in the debate.
Baroness Barker: My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 160A. Anyone wishing to press this or anything else in the group to a Division must make that clear in the debate. Clause 77: Water resources management plans, drought plans and joint proposals
Baroness Barker: My Lords, during Pride month, the Alzheimer’s Society and Opening Doors London did a lot to highlight the experiences of LGBT people with dementia. Does the Minister agree that when the Secretary of State for Health insists on wearing a rainbow badge, it is unacceptable for people to turn up to services only to be misgendered or to have their family relationships ignored or undermined, and...
Baroness Barker: We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 95. Anyone wishing to press this or anything else in the group to a Division must make that clear in the debate. Clause 22: Principal objective of the OEP and exercise of its functions
Baroness Barker: We appear not to have the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington.
Baroness Barker: I call the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle.
Baroness Barker: The noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, has withdrawn. The next speaker is the noble Lord, Lord Bhatia.
Baroness Barker: My Lords, I salute the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, as she makes her way off to her new defence portfolio. I want to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, in turning the House’s attention to the often forgotten part of social care: mental health social care. I put it to the Minister that, as we sit here watching, as we have done for the past year, an unfolding mental health crisis with an...
Baroness Barker: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women have travelled to the British mainland to receive abortion care since the establishment of a legal framework for abortion in Northern Ireland on 31 March 2020.
Baroness Barker: We now come to the 20 minutes allocated for Back-Bench questions. I ask that questions and answers be brief, so I can call the maximum number of speakers.