Clause 17 - Financial powers
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Stephen Pound (Ealing North, Labour)
My response would be that I hope we are starting down a different road. NHS foundation trusts are a different beast from those we have known before. We should use this opportunity to breed a better beast. The fact that it exists at present is not a persuasive argument. However, I recognise that it
would probably be inappropriate for me to seek to divide the Committee on this occasion as several hon. Members want the matter to be discussed in another place and in the Chamber.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 17 ordered to stand part of the Bill.