Clause 4
Health and Social Care Bill
12:15 pm
Ben Bradshaw (Minister of State (Health Services; Minister for the South West), Department of Health; Exeter, Labour)
This may not be my job, but I slightly flinched at the hon. Gentleman’s use of the term apartheid to describe some of the complexities that have arisen from the democratic decisions taken in this country to grant devolution to Wales, but I will leave that issue with him. Apartheid, in my view, was a despicable, racist-based policy, deliberately implemented by the nationalist Government in South Africa. It is not an appropriate term to refer to these complexities.