Clause 16 - Intervention orders
Health and Social Care Bill
11:00 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I am glad that we are coming to the second debate just 40 minutes into our deliberations. I heard what the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam said. If that was intended to be a nod in the direction of approval of the timetabling system, he should calculate that, at the current rate of progress and assuming we have stand part debates on each of the six clauses that we are scheduled to deal with, we will need 10 hours and 45 minutes to finish the business before us. I hope that hon. Members do not start to congratulate themselves too early on our rate of progress.