Schedule 1
Health and Social Care Bill
2:15 pm
Stephen O'Brien (Shadow Minister, Health; Eddisbury, Conservative)
I am rewinding slightly to the hon. Lady’s question about why new sub-paragraph (1A)(e) is in the amendment. It is indeed intended to be a catch-all, but we should recognise that the commission intends not to set itself up against the Government or the Secretary of State, but to ensure that it runs with the grain of what is trying to be achieved cross-government and independently by those experts in the sector who are at a supervisory rather than operative level. That is why the catch-all is there: to ensure that the Secretary of State’s influence can genuinely be applied in that area.