Health and Social Care Bill
Public Bill Committees, 30 January 2001
10:30 am
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
On a point of order, Mr. Maxton. The Secretary of State is taking part in a conference organised by the Department that will deal with the matters covered by the clauses that the Committee will be considering today. Is it in order for the Secretary of State to hold such a conference while the Committee is scrutinising those very provisions, especially as I imagine he will be setting out in much more detail than we have before us how the new arrangements will work?
Mr John Maxton (Glasgow, Cathcart, Labour)
That is not a point of order for me. The Committee is here to debate what is listed on the amendment paper. Clause 14 Abolition of community health councils in england