division_name: Health and Care Bill &#8212; Clause 35 - Report on assessing and meeting workforce needs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b522.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;circumstances that are likely to result in the need for the reconfiguration of NHS services&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b525.5/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;costs accrued in meeting eligible needs&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b526.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The regulations may not be made unless&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b526.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) the results of the Trailblazer pilot schemes have been evaluated, and the Secretary of State has laid that evaluation before Parliament, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b526.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) the Secretary of State has completed a further general impact assessment covering distributional regional analysis&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b531.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government disagreed with the numbers&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b531.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;because we could not get approval to publish the document with any forecasts in it.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2022-12-07">7 December</phrase> 2021; Vol. 816, c. 1814.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b531.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The way that the NHS does workforce planning is at best opaque and at worst responsible for the unacceptable pressure on the current workforce which existed even before the pandemic.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b534.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In the next 25 years, the number of people older than 85 will double to 2.6 million&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b534.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;measures to adopt a sustainable long-term approach to workforce planning on a statutory footing.&#8221;</p>