Clause 6
NHS Redress Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
John Baron (Shadow Minister, Health; Billericay, Conservative)
Let us start our debate by discussing the Government’s line that we are adding to bureaucracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are accepting the structures that are in place. All we are doing is trying to simplify process by separating fact finding from fault finding. That is not adding to bureaucracy. The bureaucracy would have to exist anyway under the scheme as the Government would like it to be. All we are saying is that there should be an independent person at the top to guarantee its independence. That is not adding to bureaucracy.