Clause 3
NHS Redress Bill [Lords]
11:45 am
Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness, Conservative)
Even though, under a previous clause, a report should ordinarily be provided, the Minister is unhappy to allow a report to be included in this case. The Minister is suggesting that he will not amend the legislation to say even that an annual report must be provided. We are to take that provision entirely on the Minister’s assurance, without reassurance being put in the law. I hope he will accept that that is simply not good enough.
It is a problem that so much is being left to secondary legislation. On a core issue such as this, which is of great matter to Members across the Committee, we need an assurance that, if the Minister cannot accept the argument for a report to be provided in each case, at least we on the Committee, who are helping to amend the law, should know that there is a guarantee that the lessons will be put into an annual report.