Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
10:00 am
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister. I do not think that I used the word ''irreconcilable''; it is merely that there would be differing interests. I suppose that the word that I should have used is ''unprecedented''. It is unprecedented that the Government looked to mutual status in other organisations as an example of how this organisation will work. However, other organisations do not seek to reconcile such a range of interests, and in theoretical terms they do not seek to incorporate into one mutual organisation the interests of both producers and consumers.