Schedule 3
Health Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm

Stephen O'Brien (Shadow Minister, Health; Eddisbury, Conservative)
That clears up the question about the retrospective provisions, and clearly there is nobody in the Ministers sights. The slight question that survives, which perhaps the Minister could pick up at a later point, is whether the actual grounds for suspension need to have arisen before the legislation in order not to be caught or whether they can be caught retrospectively. Does the Minister want to intervene on that point?
