Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
4:15 pm
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
Does the hon. Gentleman understand the problem of conflicting parallel mandates, whereby local councillors may be elected, on our model, to make decisions about where hospital services should
be, but hospitals may claim that they have the democratic mandate to insist that they provide the services? Does he accept that there is a problem caused by having democracy in both arms of the commissioning and providing process?