Clause 35
Health and Social Care Bill
10:15 am
Stephen O'Brien (Shadow Minister, Health; Eddisbury, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 27, in clause 35, page 17, line 35, at end insert—
‘(aa) to the relevant Local Involvement Network and cooperative group of Local Involvement Networks,’.
In my desperate attempt to ensure that we kill the left-hand column of the selection list by the time we have to close, I should mention that amendment No. 27 would include LINks in the list of bodies to be notified of certain matters. Although that is no doubt possible under subsection (1)(d), it would be useful for it to be included in the Bill. I remind the Committee of the debate on LINks, but I will explicitly mention now CSCI, which in its submission at paragraph 43 stated:
“It would be useful if there were an explicit expectation that the new care provision had a relationship with local involvement networks.”
In the event that the Minister rejects this amendment—I sincerely hope that he will not feel that he needs to or should—I hope that he will add it to his great big box of issues to be reflected on, and come back to the Committee at a later stage with clearer thinking on it.