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Lord Kamall (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 September 2025

Debate

Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

Contribution

My Lords, I just continue the theme that the noble Lord, Lord Laming, referred to about not writing people off. Quite often, when we try to help people into work, we talk about work, but there are many entrepreneurs who may not be able to get into work because of a mental or physical disability but are able to start businesses. Is the noble Baroness aware of an organisation called Purple Shoots? It offers loans of between £500 and £3,000 and mentoring to people to help them to start businesses. I met one person who had been helped; they were wheelchair bound, they took themselves off benefits, took eight other people off benefits and showed the positive role of entrepreneurship. The problem is that such organisations do not get any lottery funding. Can she speak to her colleagues in DWP and DCMS to make sure that organisations such as Purple Shoots and Trust Leeds, which she may know, get that sort of funding?

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