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The House of Lords have voted by 299 to 136 to reject Lord Hain's amendment.
Peers now move on to the next set of amendments, which call on the government to publish reports on the potential impact of Brexit.
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SNP health spokesperson Philippa Whitford warns of short-term solutions in the English social care system.
She says current plans seem like a "patch" in short-term funding, saying broader cuts are undermining integration.
She says integration between social care and health will help reduce administrative costs by business.
Simple methods such as free bus passes, free prescriptions and easier access to operations such as hip replacements can increase independence, therefore reducing social care, she points out.
And she also raises concern that social care jobs will be more difficult to fill post-Brexit as many who work in the sector come from EU countries.
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The House of Lords is now voting on amendment 4, which has been tabled by Labour's Lord Hain.
The amendment requires the prime minister to give an undertaking to negotiate on the basis that the UK will remain in the single market.
The Lib Dems have said they will be supporting the amendment but the Labour frontbench has said it will not.
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Concluding, Lord Bridges urges remainers to "stop fighting the battle of the campaign" and "think about how we can overcome the challenges".
With respect, this amendment has no place in this bill, he says.
Respectfully, I completely disagree, replies Lord Hain.
Turning to his own party, he predicts that Jeremy Corbyn will be judged by history to be on the wrong side of the argument "by forcing us in the Labour Party to do something that we do not actually believe in."
He tells peers that he has only ever gone against his party "once or twice" but says this is "a matter of crucial importance" and pushes the amendment to a vote.
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Responding on behalf of the government, Lord Bridges of Headley first notes that the amendment is not relevant to the bill being discussed.
He also argues that the House should honour the EU referendum.
Yes, he acknowledges, the Conservative manifesto did promise to protect British interests within the single market.
However, he adds, the manifesto also promised to respect the result of the EU referendum.
He also suggests that remaining in the single market would mean "to all intents and purposes" staying in the EU.
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Baroness Hayter expresses concern that remaining in the single market would mean that instead of being a member of the club that sets the rule "we would be mere recipients".
Lord Mandelson intervenes to argues that the UK would not be mere recipients but "large influential members in the EEA".
Everyone accepts that, he says, "and I cannot understand why my own frontbench can't see that".
That is a hope, says Baroness Hayter, rather than a guarantee.
She acknowledges that her heart is with the amendment but concludes that she cannot support it.
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Lib Dem Baroness Ludford says that her party will support the amendment and hopes that the "distinguished speeches" will have persuaded the Labour frontbench to support it too.
Labour's Brexit spokeswoman Baroness Hayter says that the arguments are persuasive but appear "as if the referendum hadn't happened".
We cannot "airbrush free movement" from the referendum decision.
Currently those countries who are members of the single market also have to accept freedom of movement.
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I know how ponderous the EU can be, says Labour peer and former EU trade commissioner Lord Mandelson.
I know how difficult it can be for third countries in these negotiations, he adds.
He suggests that by seeking to leave the single market the government does not understand "what it is biting off".
Crossbencher Lord Dykes intervenes to ask why, given his European credentials, Lord Mandelson is not campaigning to keep the UK in the EU.
"My word," responds Lord Mandelson and continues: "Judging by my inbox the noble lord must be the only person who thinks I am not fighting to keep the UK in the EU."
However, he goes on to says that he is a democrat and respects the result of the referendum.
We had the referendum, he says, we can now make choice between leaving the single market and "wrecking our economy".
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Crossbencher Lord Smith intervenes on Labour's Lord Cashman to ask if he "shares my dismay" that the leadership of the official opposition "appear to have set their face" against supporting the amendment.
At the heart of amendment, he says, is an instruction to the government to put membership of the single market at the heart of negotiations.
I do share his dismay, replies Lord Cashman.
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Lib Dem peer Lord Oates supports Lord Hain's amendment.
The matter of membership of the single market was not on the referendum ballot paper, he says.
He argues that other than the referendum the prime minister has no other mandate.
Why then, he asks, is the government "saying no" to the single market.
He urges peers to asks the government to "think again".
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Conservative Kevin Hollinrake notes that demographic changes will add further strains to UK social care.
In the past 10 years, the number of people in the UK aged over-80 has increased by 33%.
He cites factors such as the national minimum wage (which has "soaked up" a lot of funding) and the poor profitability of care homes, which has led to closures of some homes.
He says that any funding changes should put "need first" to ensure that areas unable to raise as much money as wealthier areas are not hard done by.
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Labour's Stephen McCabe launches a stinging attack on the health secretary, calling his stewardship "a disaster".
He says the government has led to the "steady dismantlement of the country's greatest peacetime achievement."
He says that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is happy to "flex his muscles" when it comes to bullying junior doctors, but it's always someone else fault when it comes to organisational issues - with reference to social care and long A&E waiting times.
"It used to be in exchange for the red box and ministerial salary, ministers took responsibility. The buck stopped with them. But no more," he says.
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Labour's Lord Wigley has tabled an amendment in this group.
His amendment 5 requires the prime minister to give an undertaking to ensure the UK's "unfettered access" to the European single market.
Lord Wigley tells peers that the issue of single membership is vital to "so much" of the manufacturing industry, particularly in Wales.
He urges the government to reach a deal whereby Wales has barrier free access to the single market in exchange for allowing EU immigrants to come to Wales to work.
Industry, business and agriculture would sleep much easier, he says.
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Labour's Rosie Cooper says that proposed changes to social care are akin to "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" and represent broader issues in the NHS.
She argues that many of the figures for both national NHS and more local social care are unable to capture how serious the situation is.
"Organisational chaos," she says, "is leading to patients getting lost" in the system are unable to link social care with health care.
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Image source, PABusiness leaders are calling on a future government to ensure continued "access" to the EU's single market following the referendum but what does that short but significant word mean?
As the prime minister has pointed out "access to the single market has many potential different meanings".
Japan and the US have "access" and, as one economist told me, even Haiti does.
Countries outside the EU have to negotiate trade deals, pay tariffs, get through customs and abide by EU rules.
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