Clause 6 - Local Health boards
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)
I beg to move amendment No. 93, in page 8, line 10, at end insert—
'( ) Section 1 of the National Health Service (Private Finance) Act 1997 (c.56) (powers to enter into externally financed development agreements) applies to Local Health Boards as it applies to National Health Service trusts.'.
This is a technical amendment. It simply allows local health boards to enter into private finance arrangements in the same way that local health trusts are able to do.
Amendment agreed to.
Question proposed, That the clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill.