Clause 2 - Payments relating to past performance
Health and Social Care Bill
5:45 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
No I cannot, for the reasons which I gave earlier. The traffic-light system, which we have been discussing, does not depend on clause 2 of the Bill. The discussion has been a useful platform for that discussion, but clause 2 is not required to implement the traffic-light system. It would be quite wrong to say in Committee, however helpful it might be to the hon. Gentleman, that we think that there will be a particular number of red-light trusts as it would affect the entire process.