Health and Social Care Bill
1:00 pm
Ben Bradshaw (Minister of State (Health Services; Minister for the South West), Department of Health; Exeter, Labour)
Yes, I can do so briefly. My understanding is that—and I apologise for this—my officials were not aware of the new Library rule requiring some public commitment on the part of the Minister that he or she will place a document in the Library. Although I think that we have e-mails from way back showing that it was our intention to do so, my officials and I were not aware of the procedure. As the hon. Member for Eddisbury has graciously acknowledged, we tried to place the document in the Library, but it did not happen because of the new rule.