Schedule 5 - CHAI: supplementary
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
Those last comments by the Under-Secretary about the division between issues of governance and issues of executive and operational control are fair. My anxiety is that the removal of the words from the Bill would allow members of the board to allocate responsibilities in very different ways, so as to give non-executive board members executive responsibilities.
Will the Under-Secretary explain why the schedules that established all the relevant commissions in the Care Standards Act 2000 contained the exact words that he is seeking to remove from the Bill? There appear to have been no operational or governance problems in that body; can he show that there have been?