Clause 5 - X-rays and ultrasound scans: England and Wales
Drugs Bill
11:15 am
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Chesham and Amersham, Conservative)
I will withdraw the amendment. [Interruption.] I will withdraw it for the simple reason that I drafted it as a probing amendment, and I was up front about that. I am being urged by my hon. Friends not to withdraw it, but I will. The Minister is moving in the direction in which I wish her to of providing us with more detail.
Let me make it clear that I am not against the provisions; I am trying to strengthen them and to iron out difficulties that I foresee. The haste with which the Bill has been brought before us has resulted in some of the i's not being dotted and the t's not being crossed. The absence from the RIA of an estimate of the cost to the health service is indicative of that haste.
GPs' surgeries will not be happy that a policeman can telephone from a local constabulary requesting use of their facilities for which they will not be reimbursed.
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.