Results 1-6 of 6 for foundation hospital speaker:Stephen Pound

Public Bill Committee: Civil Contingencies Bill: Clause 5 - General measures (29 Jan 2004)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...he referred. I find myself in the unusual position of entirely supporting the Government. The Minister looks horrified, but I should say that the last time I voted against the Government was over foundation hospitals and they put me on the Standing Committee that considered the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill. Since then I have never voted against them. There...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 17 - Financial powers (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...be a wrecking or probing amendment; it is more of a pecking amendment. It is trying to penetrate the carapace of actuarial obfuscation that occasionally occurs in large corporations and possibly in foundation hospitals. It would simply require that the foundation trust annually publish a complete list of all the organisations, bodies and companies in which investments were held. I am...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 17 - Financial powers (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...Nos. 263 and 264. I am almost alone, as I do not have a cohort of supporters behind me. I am trying to define precisely the core role and function of the financial regime that will apply in a foundation hospital. The Committee's blood could be curdled many times over by tales of the financial adventures of some of our formerly state-owned organisations. I do not imply that foundation...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 11 - Power of Secretary of State to give financial assistance (22 May 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...at the time. In the Ealing PCT we have a deficit of 3 per cent. based on 2003–04 figures, and that is about £8 million. All three PCTs in my area have a deficit. How can we avoid going into a foundation hospital system with an inherent deficit? That worries me, because if we are going to assume that there will be an element of deficit, as was the case with the PCTs, that could...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (15 May 2003)

Mr Stephen Pound: ...think that the bar is the issue—if that £1 gives a person a stake, so be it. The hon. Gentleman argued for his other two amendments persuasively. It strikes me that those relate to the residue of the foundation companies phase of this legislation. Paragraphs 5(2)(a) and 5(2)(b) seem to be more redolent of company law than of a foundation hospital that has a group of citizens...

Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)

Mr Stephen Pound: From the hon. Lady's description, I rather suspected that Lord Voldemort was in charge of the hospital. Talking of evil, my hon. Friend the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (James Purnell), the golden boy—in fact, the increasingly golden-haired boy—of a future Labour Administration, described foundation hospitals as the dynamo of change driving the engine of choice, or vice versa,...