Care Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 12:30 pm ar 23 Ionawr 2014.
Norman Lamb
The Minister of State, Department of Health
12:30,
23 Ionawr 2014
I beg to move Amendment 4, in Clause 62, page 53, line 19, at end insert—
‘(5A) Where, in the case of a carer to whom a child’s carer’s assessment relates, the child becomes 18, the local authority must decide whether to treat the assessment as a carer’s assessment; and if the authority decides to do so, this Part applies to the child’s carer’s assessment as if it were a carer’s assessment that had been carried out after the child had become 18.
(5B) In considering what to decide under subsection (5A), a local authority must have regard to—
(a) when the child’s carer’s assessment was carried out, and
(b) whether it appears to the authority that the circumstances of the carer to whom the child’s carer’s assessment relates have changed in a way that might affect the assessment.’.
Hugh Bayley
NATO Parliamentary Assembly UK Delegation, NATO Parliamentary Assembly (President)
With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 10 and 12.
Norman Lamb
The Minister of State, Department of Health
I promise not to detain the Committee for long on this group of minor and technical amendments, which reflect a policy intention about which we have always been clear—that a transition assessment can be treated as a full assessment under the Bill where that is appropriate and proportionate. That power already existed for children and young carers, but due to an oversight was not replicated for children’s carers. The amendments correct that oversight and I hope they will receive the approval of the Committee without the need to detain ourselves any longer.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
As a bill passes through Parliament, MPs and peers may suggest amendments - or changes - which they believe will improve the quality of the legislation.
Many hundreds of amendments are proposed by members to major bills as they pass through committee stage, report stage and third reading in both Houses of Parliament.
In the end only a handful of amendments will be incorporated into any bill.
The Speaker - or the chairman in the case of standing committees - has the power to select which amendments should be debated.
