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Lord Kamall (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 July 2025

Debate

Independent Commission on Adult Social Care

Contribution

To make it easy, I will resolve it. My Lords, I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the late noble Lord, Lord Lipsey. He was on the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care of the Elderly in 1998. Many noble Lords may not know this but, before he passed away, we were working on a cross-party proposal to raise awareness of existing later-life insurance products offered by mutuals and private insurance, so that taxpayers fund only those without sufficient assets or those who lived beyond the coverage of the insurance—usually five years. Can the Minister assure us that, whatever the Casey commission proposes, given that we are looking at solutions in the short term, the Government will raise awareness of later-life insurance products currently offered by mutual and for-profit insurers, especially for those who cannot wait for the Casey commission to report?

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