Clause 12 - Free provision of certain community care services
Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill
4:15 pm
Mr John Baron (Billericay, Conservative)
I, too, have reservations about the Minister's response. We are proposing an element of flexibility in the Bill, to ensure that the provision of free services and the provision of accommodation are married up. That is logical, sensible, and in the best interests of the patient. If it is legally possible anyway, why can it not be incorporated in the Bill? There is a welter of regulations behind the Bill, but the message that it conveys is important. For those reasons, I would press for a division.
Question put, That the amendment be made:—
The Committee divided: Ayes 7, Noes 8.