Clause 7 - Functions of Overview and Scrutiny Committees
Health and Social Care Bill
4:45 pm
Mr John Denham (Minister of State, Department of Health; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
Ours is not to speculate on the workings of the minds of parliamentary counsel. Various suggestions are made to Ministers to be helpful, but after close scrutiny it is sometimes possible to identify helpful things that one should not take a power to do.
Amendment agreed to.