Schedule 5 - CHAI: supplementary
Health and Social Care
11:00 am
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Health; Tottenham, Labour)
I shall come back to the hon. Gentleman on that point if I have made an error. My understanding was that the Appointments Commission was a special health authority, but it may be—[Interruption.] It looks like I am right and the hon. Gentleman misunderstood me; it is a special health authority.
To continue, the fact that we have not delegated the appointments process under this clause does not reflect any sinister attempt by the Government not to delegate the power. The power to delegate the appointments process to the NHS Appointments Commission is provided in clause 168.