Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell, Conservative)
The three amendments have different purposes: one probing, one possibly probing and one definitely not probing.
Amendment No. 69 deals with schedule 1, paragraph 5(1), which states:
''A person may not be a member of a public benefit corporation unless he has agreed to pay a sum not exceeding £1 to the corporation.''
That is nonsensical for a variety of reasons. It is unnecessary, and it creates an additional barrier and
deterrent to someone's joining their local hospital. In no other part of society must one pay to join the electoral register. Why should one have to pay to join the electoral register of one's local hospital? Will not that be a deterrent?