Clause 46 - Care Trusts where directed partnership arrangements
Health and Social Care Bill
12:00 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
As I said this morning, for the Secretary of State to have the power to step in when something is going badly wrong-when an authority is clearly failing-is one thing. For the Secretary of State to take powers to impose what is supposed to be an enduring partnership arrangement is palpably crazy: you cannot impose a requirement on people to work together and co-operate; that is clearly a problem.