Clause 46 - Care Trusts where directedpartnership arrangements
Health and Social Care Bill
12:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I am sorry to disappoint the Government Whip if he thought we were going to get through clause 46 before lunch, but I am afraid that I need to raise some issues.
As has already been well-rehearsed, the jury is out on the concept of care trusts, but we are broadly supportive of it as long as the initial schemes are properly evaluated and decisions to proceed are made on the basis of the evidence available and are entered into voluntarily. These partnership arrangements depend essentially on people working together and people cannot be coerced into working together.
Clause 45 stands in sharp contrast to clause 46 where the Government—
It being One o'clock, THE CHAIRMAN adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Four o'clock.