New Clause 9
Health Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Stephen O'Brien (Shadow Minister, Health; Eddisbury, Conservative)
I was just trying to work out what withdrawing the remarks meant, and whether I was going to have an opportunity to stand up and support the spirit of the new clause. I would, however, have preferred subsection (2) to say “patients or members of the public with disabilities”.
Subsection (2) seems valid; subsection (3) is more bureaucratic, which I think the hon. Lady accepts, and I am not sure whether accountability could not be exercised in other, somewhat less bureaucratic, ways. Without costs being properly identified and attached to this, it would be difficult to gain the Opposition’s support, but at the same time I welcome the spirit in which it has been presented and moved.