Clause 19 - The NHS Commissioning Board: further provision

Part of Health and Social Care (Re-Committed) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:30 pm on 5 July 2011.

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Photo of Simon Burns Simon Burns The Minister of State, Department of Health 4:30, 5 July 2011

If the hon. Gentleman bears with me, I will come back to that point during my comments. I want to repeat the quote that I have just given, because the intervention distracted the flow of the debate. As I have said, the Future Forum stated that

“if competition is used effectively and properly regulated, we do not believe it threatens the fundamental principle of an NHS that is universal and free at point of delivery.”