Clause 10 - Expenditure of NHS Bodies
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
4:45 pm
Mr John Hutton (Minister of State, Department of Health; Barrow and Furness, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman will be aware that arrangements are in place to cover that eventuality, and I shall write to him with the details. However, the Bill does not and cannot change the legislation on the operation of any part of the NHS in Scotland because that is a fully devolved issue. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that part of the clause relates to Wales. It
allows Wales to preserve existing health authority arrangements. Those arrangements define part I and part II expenditure for local health boards, which will mirror the definition used by current Welsh health authorities.