Clause 17 - Annual Reports
NHS Reform & Health Care Professions Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
It is true that other Acts contain a provision that the person who receives the annual report is the Secretary of State, and there is also a duty to publish. Does the Under-Secretary envisage that such a provision would apply here, or would it be unnecessary because the forum would be publishing the report itself? The Bill stipulates what the report must include, but it does not require it to be in the public domain; many people would think that it should be.