Extract from Lords debate on Mental Health Services: Black and
Minority Ethnic Communities Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab):...The
acute care commission report, led by the noble Lord, Lord Crisp,
who is here today, helpfully summarised some of the evidence around
access to general mental health services. For example, Indian,
Bangladeshi and Chinese people had consistently low referral rates
to crisis teams, but BME groups, particularly black Caribbean
patients, were generally more...Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on Mental Health Services: Black and Minority Ethnic
Communities
(Lab):...The acute care commission report, led by
the noble Lord, , who is here today, helpfully
summarised some of the evidence around access to general mental
health services. For example, Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese people had
consistently low referral rates to crisis teams, but BME groups,
particularly black Caribbean patients, were generally more likely
to be admitted to hospital once they had been seen by a crisis
team. There is also evidence that some BME groups have more complex
pathways into care than white patients, with more involvement by
the police and the criminal justice system, as my noble friend
and others have
mentioned...
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on the Royal Marines
(LD):...Routinely,
we have three boarding teams and up to four maritime sniper pairs
embarked in Royal Naval ships. We have multiple ships force
protection teams and two United Kingdom Border Force protection
teams deployed around the world. We have conducted 20 training team
tasks so far this year and deployed in places such as Ukraine,
Kenya, Somaliland, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, Saudi Arabia,
Oman, India, Indonesia, Lebanon and Senegal. We
have, in addition, contributed to the migrant task force in the
Mediterranean. We have expertise in jungle and desert warfare, as
well as warfare in other climates and terrains. In addition, 43
Commando is tasked to protect the strategic deterrent every day,
and that unit remains the defence lead practitioners, outside the
UK Special Forces, in close-quarter battle in the land
environment...
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debate on the Budget
(Hertsmere)
(Con):...We should consider whether we are able to
release further resources for infrastructure spending. For example,
the materials used for digging Crossrail 1 could be released
straight into Crossrail 2, and we could look at HS2 and see whether
we can release resources into HS3. It is those sort of long-term
decisions that countries such as South Korea, China
and India are making and that we are
constrained from making due to excessive spending on current
priorities...
(South Dorset)
(Con):...I shall tell the House a little story. Lord
Digby Jones came down to my constituency to attend the
apprenticeship fair, which is now in its fifth year. I set it up
with the help of the local college, for which I give many thanks.
He gave a speech. For those who do not know, let me say that he was
a trade ambassador—I think he still is, actually—and he had been
to India to meet up and coming
businesses over there, as that country is going to be a huge
powerhouse in the years ahead. He sat in the back of a taxi and he
noticed the taxi driver’s eyes staring at him in the mirror. The
taxi driver asked who he was and he said, “I’m . I’m a trade ambassador. Who
are you?” The taxi driver gave his name and said that he had two
sons, and said, “And what are your two
sons doing?” He said, “They are at university. And I’m spending
every waking minute in my car earning every penny I can to support
them in their futures.” , with the eyes still fixed on
him—of course, the car was still going straight down the road, we
hope—said, “Where do you see your children in the years to come?”
Without pausing, the taxi driver said, “Where you’re sitting.” The
point of my story is that there are tens of thousands of young
people in the rising Asian economies who are so hungry, lean and
mean—in the business sense—and they want a share of what we have
had and of what we need to engender in this country. We have to get
hungry, mean and lean again. Government Ministers can help
enormously with that by following Conservative philosophy...
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Hall debate on Dr Elsie Inglis and Women’s Contribution to
World War One
(Edinburgh South)
(Lab):...Who was Dr Elsie Inglis? Born in India in 1864,
she was the daughter of John Inglis, a chief commissioner in the
Indian civil service. She studied medicine at Dr Sophia Jex-Blake’s
then newly opened Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women and was
one of the first women in Scotland to finish higher education,
although she was not allowed to graduate. She went on to complete
her training under Sir William Macewen at the Glasgow Royal
Infirmary...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (John Glen):...The
Department for Communities and Local Government, which has
responsibility for commemorating women’s suffrage, has plans for a
project called “Inspirational Women: Speak Up”. It will enable
schools across the country to research and present content about
the contribution of women to society and will include women such as
Dr Elsie Inglis and Sophia Duleep Singh, who served as a Voluntary
Aid Detachment nurse, tending wounded Indian troops in Brighton...
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