division_name: Debate on the Address &#8212; Health, Social Care and Security
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d600.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech fails to end cuts to the police and the fire service; commend the response of the emergency services to the recent terrorist attacks and to the Grenfell Tower fire; call on the Government to recruit more police officers and fire-fighters; and further call on the Government to end the public sector pay cap and give the emergency and public services a fair pay rise.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d601.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We have protected the police budget from 2015.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d601.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There has been a lot of scaremongering about changes to the budget, and I repeat here, in the House, that it will be protected.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-22">22 June</phrase> 2017; Vol. 626, c. 199.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d601.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There are now 34,000 fewer staff working in policing than there were in 2010, including 19,000 fewer police officers&#8221;?</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d614.5/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My view coming into the scrutiny which we are told the Prime Minister wants to conduct is that we do have the appropriate laws in place, and that essentially the police and security services, and those whose job it is to keep us safe, do have the powers at their disposal.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d614.5/19" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Effective counter-terrorism measures and the protection of human rights are complementary and mutually reinforcing objectives which must be pursued together as part of States&#8217; duty to protect individuals within their jurisdiction.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d617.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;profoundly struck by the immediate inclination of people throughout the country to offer comfort and support to those in desperate need.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d622.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to support the government in stamping out extremist ideology in all its forms, both across society and on the internet, so it is denied a safe space to spread.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d629.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My Ministers will work to improve social care and will bring forward proposals for consultation.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d630.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;unprecedented circumstances with our clinical team and the continued difficulties in recruitment&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d639.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As regards Eurojust, Europol and the European arrest warrant, those will be matters for&#8230;negotiations&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-26">26 June</phrase> 2017; Vol. 626, c. 321.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d649.4/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;At my school, we manage the budget prudently and we have rising numbers so have received similar funding for 17/18 as for 16/17. In fact there has been a small increase of just over &#163;1,000. Despite this, without any planned increase in spending on teachers or resources, I am unable to balance the budget. The increased costs for areas such as Employers NI, pension contributions, apprenticeship levy, salaries and utilities has meant that I don&#8217;t have the capacity&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d649.4/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to set a balanced budget without making reductions and using our carry forward. For 2018/19 the school will almost certainly need to undertake a re-structuring programme to reduce staffing costs. This will inevitably impact on the teaching and learning, at a time when we have increasing pupil numbers.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d654.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;feel the hand of history upon our shoulders.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d658.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Adult social care is at a tipping point&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d665.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in office but not in power.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-09">9 June</phrase> 1993; Vol. 226, c. 285.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d665.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions&#8230;there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-06-09">9 June</phrase> 1993; Vol. 226, c. 284-285.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d669.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;your military is too small. There is no question about that&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d677.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There are already a number of reasons to be concerned about the workforce: this&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d677.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;could be the last straw.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d677.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Before the Brexit vote, we used to have hundreds of applicants in nursing. Now, we barely see 50. All staff are tired and worried about what will come next. In my department, 60% of nurses are EU citizens and already five of them have handed in their notice. I am an EU citizen myself and I&#8217;m already making plans to leave the UK for good. The healthcare system will collapse and I don&#8217;t want to be part of it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d691.2/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;He was the most toxic thing on the doorstep among public sector workers&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="d697.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="d697.6/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 309, Noes 323.</p>