Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
11:29 am
Sir Jeremy Beecham: I do not think that we used any arguments, nor did we seek to persuade the Minister, but there are some local authorities that pursued that agenda. Stockton-on-Tees was one authority that canvassed that idea quite intensively with the Government. I am not aware that the association itself has pursued it. For myself, I would not touch it with the proverbial bargepole, but that is another matter.