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Health and Social Care Bill
8:00 pm
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford, Conservative)
The consultation may have been internal. We published the White Paper, but we never gave a definitive answer on exactly what the matching would be, as we would not have needed to do so before we introduced the legislation. That was always going to be after the general election, as we were up against the buffer of having been in government for five years.