Clause 2
Health and Social Care Bill
1:30 pm
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley, Labour)
I am talking about clause 2, new section 1A(4) of the National Health Service Act 2006, which you can see refers to clause 218 of the Bill, which states that
“A quality standard… must be endorsed by the relevant commissioner”,
and how that relates to clause 4 of this Bill, that says commissioners have autonomy—there is a great contradiction in that. I may not have to debate anything on clause 4 if the Minister can tell the Committee what this means.