Clause 50 - National performance data
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill
9:30 am
Mr Peter Atkinson (Hexham, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 418, in
clause 50, page 17, line 37, at end add—
'(2) For the purposes of this section data relating to the provision of health care shall include all data relating to performance by NHS bodies.
(3) The Secretary of State may by order exclude certain categories of data relating to the performance of English NHS bodies and crossborder SHAs from the responsibility of the CHAI under subsection (1) on the grounds that publication of such data would prejudice the efficiency of the NHS.
(4) Any power of the Secretary of State to make an order under subsection (3) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.
(5) A statutory instrument containing an order under this section shall (unless a draft of the statutory instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament) be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(6) The National Assembly may by subordinate legislation, made by statutory instrument, exclude certain categories of data relating to the performance of Welsh NHS bodies from the responsibility of the CHAI under subsection (1) on the grounds that publication of such data would prejudice the efficiency of the NHS.'.
No. 479, in
clause 50, page 17, line 37, at end add—
'(2) For the purposes of this section data relating to the provision of health care shall include all data relating to performance by NHS bodies.
(3) If the Secretary of State or the Assembly wishes to exclude certain categories of data relating to the performance of NHS bodies from the responsibility of the CHAI on the grounds that publication of such data would prejudice the efficiency of the NHS, then it must lay regulations before Parliament setting out what data it proposes to exclude, and the specific reasons for doing so.'.