APPG members tabling ‘reasoned amendment’ to prevent the UK Government’s Financial Services and Markets Bill from passing its second reading; on the basis that it creates a renewed “objective to promote growth and competitiveness, rather than making the creation of a wellbeing economy designed to foster long-term economic resilience and prosperity its overarching objective”.
Raising further awareness around unintended, often adversarial effects of growth-promoting policies, APPG member Baroness Natalie Bennett introduced an amendment to the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill, amongst others, to replace references to economic growth with “direct improvements of life outcomes in disadvantaged areas”.
This briefing note covers Health and Care Bill Committee stage amendments 237, 238 and 239. They seek to address the use of predatory financial practices by private sector firms operating in the adult social care sector. They have been tabled by Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle and were discussed on 4 February 2022.