Clause 20 - Payments relating to past performance
Health and Social Care Bill
10:00 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I must ask the Minister to correct what he said. Despite what the explanatory notes state, my interpretation of section 29(4) of the 1977 Act is not that it requires the majority of remuneration to be linked to capitation, but that it requires it not to be a fixed salary that is not linked to capitation. That is different. My reading of the section is that it would permit the Government to use a criterion other than capitation for the majority of remuneration. That would include outcomes and quality. That is why the clause is not needed to enable the Government to do what they intend.