Part of Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Invalid Direction) Bill – in the House of Commons at 5:15 pm on 13 March 1980.
If my hon. Friend, as a constituency Member, had approached the RHA about the activities of the AHA in his area, he would have been told in no uncertain terms by the RHA that the actions of the AHA were its own responsibility. This was a worse situation because the commissioners were an illegal body set up on a UDI basis.