Schedule 7 - The Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
12:15 pm
Mr John Hutton (Minister of State, Department of Health; Barrow and Furness, Labour)
I agree that if that were the case, there would be a conflict, but it is not the case, because there will not be a ministerial majority of one. That is the point behind amendment No. 203, which I laboured at the beginning of my comments, but obviously not sufficiently for the hon. Gentleman to appreciate. There will not be a majority of ministerial appointments to the UK council. The hon. Gentleman has helpfully allowed me to make the point again and it has taken away one of the legs of the stool supporting his argument about equality of representation on the council. He made a fair point, but amendment No. 203 deals with it.