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Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price says that the government recognises the challenge of increased life expectancy., especially from the fact that life expectancy is getting longer.

She says the social care sector is helping the government with policies.

"We can only spend what we collect from taxpayers," she says, responding to members from the Labour benches who are accusing the government of bringing cuts to the social care sector.

She says that Stoke and Trafford councils have managed to do lots of work on delayed transfers of care, when a person can be discharged from hospital, but can't leave because there is no service available to accept them.

With that, the motion passes with unanimous support, which calls on the government to meet the social care funding gap of £1.3bn.

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Crossbencher and vet Lord Trees introduces an amendment requiring ministers to pay due regard to the welfare requirements of animals as sentient beings in the formulation and implementation of public policy.

He recognises there is consensus this needs to be done, but says this amendment will be a better avenue to achieving it than the government's proposed bill.

This was the subject of some controversy in the Commons, when MPs rejected a similar amendment, sparking a public backlash.

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Shadow housing, communities and local government secretary, Andrew Gwynne, says "the government needs to decide their position" on how adult social care is funded and how it would best work in England.

"There's only so much longer that the sector can wait," he says.

He says that there have been warnings that all "top-tier" local authorities will soon face similar problems to Northamptonshire County Council, which is "effectively insolvent". Commissioners from central government are expected to take control of the council by the end of the month.

He says that in the "areas with the greatest need, a small increase in tax will never make up for the shortfall in funding" from central government.

He says in his constituency, there will be a £33m funding gap in social care, yet an increase of 1% of council tax will raise "just £700,000".

Social care providers are also struggling financially, he adds.

Theresa May hails UK and Welsh ministers' agreement over a long-running Brexit 'power-grab' row.

Today in Parliament
Today in Parliament

The Brexit Committee got off to an awkward start after the Brexit Secretary David Davis set a time limit of 90 minutes on the session.

That did not go down well with the committee chair, Labour's Hilary Benn.

When the session got under way, Mr Davis expressed confidence that MPs would back the government's intention to leave the EU customs union after Brexit.

You can hear more about events in Parliament on Today in Parliament at 11.30pm on Radio 4.

Select Committee
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"You have a lot of people right now who do not trust the system that is in place," Yvette Cooper tells Amber Rudd.

Leaving the home secretary with a "final thought", Ms Cooper warns that there could be similar situations "coming down the track".

Amber Rudd says that the "cultural change" in the Home Office "is going to start here", which ends the committee's evidence session.

Select Committee
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Labour's Naz Shah asks the home secretary if she will reverse changes to legal aid funding.

"I'm not looking at changes in legal aid, it's not under my jurisdiction anyway", says Amber Rudd.

House of Lords
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Government spokesperson Baroness Goldie responds to the amendment, telling peers it's "not possible for us to legislate from here" on how countries act in a reciprocal regime which we have left.

Lib Dem Baroness Ludford intervenes to ask the government to confirm it would seek to remain part of the protected persons scheme.

Baroness Goldie says she must "disappoint" peers, as that undertaking is subject to negotiations.

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Labour's Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws is introducing an amendment designed to ensure regulations are not used to diminish protections in relation to “protected persons” set out in Criminal Justice (European Protection Order) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014.

Protected persons are those covered by what used to be known as witness protection, and are often female victims of violence.

Baroness Kennedy says she wants to ensure the UK can share information across borders to help these people after Brexit.

Select Committee
Parliament

Conservative MP Kirstene Hair asks how long the home secretary expects it will take to deal with the Windrush cases.

"I am as keen to resolve this as quickly as possible, as everyone else is", replies Amber Rudd.

She says that appointments are being turned around very quickly and she receives daily updates on the numbers.

Select Committee
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Conservative Rehman Chishti asks whether the Home Office under successive governments have been aware of the Windrush issue earlier.

Amber Rudd says that she wishes that it had been.

"I'm certainly going to put in place the processes now so that they are quickly and effectively documented."

Mr Chishti asks if there were any warning signs. Amber Rudd repeats that she failed to notice the scale of the problem.

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Government spokesperson Baroness Goldie acknowledges the "power to create new criminal offences is not to be taken lightly" and says that's why ministers will need to publish a statement setting out why they need to do so.

She adds that to exclude any possibility of creating offences by regulations under the bill would risk "serious weakness in law enforcement".

The Brexit Secretary suggests MPs will be able to amend a government motion on the final EU deal.

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Crossbencher Lord Judge introduces an amendment which would prevent any criminal offences being created using delegated powers.

The bill as it stands only rules out the creation of a "relevant" criminal offence.

Lord Judge says this country has become "habituated to the creation of criminal offences by regulation" but it should be regarded as an "aberration".

Labour spokesperson Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town says she's not "entirely persuaded" by the government's proposal to publish reports saying why a new offence is needed but it's a "great improvement".

House of Lords
Parliament

Brexit Minister Lord Callanan presents a further government amendment which would prohibit public authorities from imposing or increasing fees using delegated legislation.

The move is backed by Labour and the Lib Dems.

Select Committee
Parliament

Yvette Cooper asks whether the net migration target has "distorted the decision making" in the Home Office.

"No I don't I don't think it has anything to do with it," replies Amber Rudd.

Yvette Cooper asks whether the home secretary has asked the prime minister to get rid of the net migration target.

"I have not discussed that with the prime minister," she says, adding that she would not be drawn on private conversations with Theresa May.

House of Lords
Parliament

Brexit Minister Lord Callanan now introduces an amendment to remove the ability for newly created public authorities to exercise the delegated legislation powers created in the bill.

He says this is being done because the government recognises there is "a very limited" set of circumstances in which they would need to do so.

The amendment gains support from across the House.

Select Committee
Parliament

Yvette Cooper suggests there could be a wider systemic problem in the way that the Home Office makes its decisions, that the children of the Windrush generation have got caught up in.

She asks why decisions weren't being made before "on the balance of probabilities".

Amber Rudd says that decisions were made on the balance of probabilities.

"I hope that the changes that I'm putting in place leads to a change of culture."

Select Committee
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Amber Rudd says that if people have lost their jobs because they couldn't evidence their statements, she would expect them to make their case to the independent compensation scheme.

Yvette Cooper asks when the home secretary first knew that there could be issues with the Windrush generation.

Ms Rudd says that she became aware of problems "anecdotally" over the last few months.

She says she "deeply regrets" that she didn't see it as a systemic issue until recently.