Clause 6
Health and Social Care Bill
6:15 pm
Ben Bradshaw (Minister of State (Health Services; Minister for the South West), Department of Health; Exeter, Labour)
The powers already exist. The levels of the fines have been increased, as the explanatory notes explain, from £5,000 to £50,000. I cannot give the hon. Gentleman chapter and verse on how many fines have been levied and how many people have been sent to prison. He can ask the existing regulators, or I can ask them on his behalf.