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Lord Young of Cookham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 July 2025

Debate

Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

Contribution

My Lords, we have had the Sutherland report, the Wanless report and the Dilnot report; your Lordships’ House has produced three Select Committee reports on this subject in the past few years; the Health and Social Care Committee in another place has produced 10 reports in the past eight years; the Public Accounts Committee has produced four reports; not to mention reports from the Care Quality Commission, the Nuffield Trust, the King’s Fund and the National Audit Office. Frankly, asking the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, to produce another report by 2028 is a cop out. The noble Baroness can work at pace. She recently reported on grooming gangs, and the Home Secretary said she had produced “a hugely wide-ranging assessment in just four months”.—[Official Report, Commons, 16/6/25; col. 26.] Should she not be invited to produce a report outlining options by Christmas? That would free the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, to deal with some of the other challenges facing the Government.

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