Clause 10 - Short title, commencement and extent
Health (Wales) Bill
9:30 am
Mr Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
May I take the Minister back to subsection (3)? I appreciate that he may be hoping that an explanation drops from the heavens, but I am sure that he shares my slight puzzlement about what on earth happens on a different day and why we need to make legal provision for that to happen. I should be grateful if he would give us some idea of what on earth that legislation is talking about. [Interruption.] Perhaps I should say a little about Saturday and Sunday while the Minister seeks explanations from elsewhere. It may be that community health councils perform different functions at weekends or that the HPW will be closed at the weekend. CHCs may operate on only two days a week. The Minister will need to enlighten the
Committee shortly, and I hope that he will be able to do so.