Previously called Standing Committees, Public Bill Commitees study proposed legislation (Bills) in detail, debating each clause and reporting any amendments to the Commons for further debate.
There are at least 16 MPs on a Committee, and the proportion of parties reflects the House of Commons, so the government always has a majority.
[Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
Dr Penny Dash gave evidence.
Sarah Woolnough and Jacob Lant gave evidence.
Dr Jeanette Dickson and Kay Keane gave evidence.
Dr Rosie Benneyworth gave evidence.
Sir Jeremy Hunt MP gave evidence.
[Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
Sir Ciarán Devane and James Blythe gave evidence.
Sarah Tilsed, James Cooper and Professor David Croisdale-Appleby OBE gave evidence.
Councillor Megan Wright, Sally Burlington and Maria Higson gave evidence.
Emily Holzhausen, Paul Farmer CBE and Kath Abrahams gave evidence.
Dr Michael Cocker, Dr Towhid Imam and Dr Nicola Byrne gave evidence.
Jon Restell gave evidence.
Sir Andrew Dilnot gave evidence.
Karin Smyth gave evidence.
[Sir Jeremy Wright in the Chair]
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[Sir Jeremy Wright in the Chair]
Question ( 18 June) again proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 13, in clause 4, page 3, line 22, leave out lines 22 to 29 and insert— “1C Health improvement and health inequalities duty (1) In exercising any functions...
I beg to move amendment 59, in clause 5, page 4, leave out lines 2 to 4 and insert— “(1) In exercising functions in relation to the health service, the Secretary of State must act...
I beg to move amendment 58, clause 6, page 4, line 10, leave out from “promote” to end of line 11 and insert— “(a) innovation in the provision of health services and in...
I beg to move amendment 33, in clause 7, page 4, line 31, at end insert— “(2) Training under subsection (1)(a) includes training in general health determinants as defined by section...
[Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
Amendment proposed (this day): 33, in clause 7, page 4, line 31, at end insert— “(2) Training under subsection (1)(a) includes training in general health determinants as defined by...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 53, in clause 10, page 6, line 21, leave out from “interests” to end of line and insert “of patients”. This amendment would only allow the...
I beg to move amendment 47, in clause 11, page 8, leave out lines 15 to 30. This amendment prevents the Secretary of State from removing the Chief Executive of an integrated care board.
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 57, in clause 12, page 10, line 10, at end insert— “(4A) Before making regulations under subsection (1)(b) that would alter the range of services or facilities...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Amendments made: 14, in schedule 1, page 60, line 19, leave out sub-paragraph (2). This is consequential on NC21. Amendment 15, in schedule 1, page 60, line 26, leave out “(a), (b), (c)...
[Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 28, in clause 15, page 11, line 26, at end insert— “(d) in the design of service and arrangement for service delivery (co-production).” The amendment...
I beg to move amendment 51, in clause 16, page 12, line 10, at end insert— “(3) The regulations must ensure that integrated care boards may not impose operational policies requiring...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 21, page 15, leave out from line 33 to line 6 on page 16 and insert— “(2) The constitution must provide for the ordinary members appointed as...
[Sir Jeremy Wright in the Chair]
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
We now come to group 24, and amendment 73 to clause 29 tabled by Charlie Maynard. Does any Member wish to move amendment 73? With that not being so, the question becomes that clause 29 stand part...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[Sir Jeremy Wright in the Chair]
Question (this day) again proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 60, in clause 43, page 30, line 35, at end insert— “(2A) The Secretary of State must give integrated care boards directions to increase spending on Primary...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 8, in clause 47, page 34, line 19, after “behalf” insert “, including nominated carers”. This amendment makes it explicit that nominated carers can...
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 71, in clause 47, page 34, line 29, at end insert— “(3A) The regulations must make provision for medical markers for firearms licence holders to be visible to...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Amendment proposed: 6, in schedule 7, page 96, leave out lines 38 and 39 and insert— “For section 255 (power to request NHS England to establish information systems),...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 78, in clause 58, page 43, line 40, at end insert— “1. (8B) Regulations under subsection (8A) must include provision about the period within which NICE...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
Question (this day) again proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Amendment proposed: 56, in schedule 8, page 116, line 8, leave out subsection (9).—(Dr Caroline Johnson.) This amendment would allow the Commission to recoup charges in excess of the costs...
Question put, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question put, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Amendments made: 20, in schedule 11, page 140, line 16, at end insert— “91A The Armed Forces Act 2006 is amended as follows.” This amendment and amendments 21 and 22 remove a...
“(1) Section 75 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (6), for the words from...
“(1) The National Health Service Act 2006 is amended as follows. (2) In section 132 (persons authorised to provide pharmaceutical services)— (a) for subsection (1) substitute—...
“(1) Section 133 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (inadequate provision of pharmaceutical services) is amended as follows. (2) For subsection (1) substitute— ‘(1)...
“Schedule ( The clause introduces a Schedule which amends provisions about certain appeals etc to the First-tier Tribunal. Those appeals will be transferred to an NHS body determined by...
“(1) The Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 is amended as follows. (2) In section 2 (power to make regulations about human medicines), after subsection (4) insert— ‘(4A)...
“(1) The Medical Devices Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/618) are amended as follows. (2) For regulation 1A (Schedules) substitute— ‘1A Schedule Schedule 2A has effect.’ (3)...
‘(1) Section 45 of the Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 (consultation) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (1), for “a provision of Part 1, 2, 3 or 4” substitute...
‘In section 47 of the Medicines and Medical Devices Act 2021 (regulations: procedure), for subsection (3) substitute— “(3) Regulations under Part 1 are subject to the draft...
‘In Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (regulations), in paragraph 12— (a) in sub-paragraph (1) for “relate to altering the amount of a fee or charge to...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within six months of the passing of this Act, appoint a National Maternity Commissioner, situated within the Department of Health and Social Care. (2) The...
“(1) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Secretary of State must conduct and lay before Parliament a risk assessment of all contracts between NHS organisations and suppliers...
“In the National Health Service Act 2006, after section 1CC (inserted by section 6 of this Act) insert— ‘1CD Duty to prioritise domestic suppliers (1) In exercising functions in...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, publish a strategy (‘an NHS Digital Sovereignty Strategy’) which sets out the Government's...
[Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within six months of the passing of this Act, establish an independent body (to be known as the "Sovereign Health Data Trust”) for the purpose of...
“After section 7B of the National Health Service Act 2006 insert— ‘ Each integrated care board must, for the purposes of exercising any public health functions directed by the...
“(1) Six months after the passage of this Act, and every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of State must produce and lay before Parliament a report on the prevalence of corridor care in...
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
“(1) Six months after the passage of this Act, and every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of State must produce and lay before Parliament a report on the prevalence of corridor care in...
“(1) Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must— (a) make regulations to set a statutory target for improving overall healthy life expectancy for the...
“(1) Any trade negotiation which would require NHS spending or funding to exceed £100 million must be laid before Parliament by the Secretary of State in the form of regulations...
“After section 14Z44 of the NHS Act 2006 insert— ‘Duty to promote the health and wellbeing of carers (1) Each integrated care board must exercise its functions with a view to...
“(1) Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must establish a National Respite Care Scheme. (2) The scheme under subsection (1) must make provision for—...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within six months of the passing of this Act, issue guidance to integrated care boards on communication with parents of critically ill children, and...
“(1) The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1530) are amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3). (2) After regulation 42, insert— ‘42A...
[Dr Rupa Huq in the Chair]
“Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must conduct and publish a review into the use of ECG screenings to identify cardiac issues in persons over 14 years of...
“Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must conduct and publish a review into the number of yearly deaths in the UK which are related to antimicrobial...
“(1) A member of the board of directors of an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust in England must report any evidence or reports they have seen of systemic medical malpractice within the...
“The Secretary of State is required to ensure that there are single sex— (a) changing rooms for NHS staff (b) toilets and washing facilities for NHS staff (c) wards for NHS patients...
“(1) Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must publish a report explaining the business case for the use of public private partnership for Neighbourhood...
“Within six months of the passage of this Act, the Secretary of State must make regulations which make provision for the use of private providers to improve NHS treatment access and reduce...
“The Secretary of State has a duty to make provision for adequate funding and resources for patient safety investigations conducted by the CQC, including some initiated by the CQC...
“The Secretary of State must double the number of medical school training places to 15,000 by 2031-32.”—(Dr Caroline Johnson.) This new clause would put a duty on the Secretary...
“(1) The Secretary of State must collect and publish data on the numbers and proportion of NHS staff are qualified to deliver nursing and clinical care who delivering nursing care, or...
“The Secretary of State must publish, within 12, 24, and 48 months of the passage of this Act, the number of persons— (a) employed by the Department for Health and Social Care; and...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 90 days of the day on which this Act is passed, publish a plan for securing the provision of fracture liaison services across England. (2) A plan...
“(1) The Secretary of State must publish and maintain a national framework for improving access to radiotherapy services in England. (2) The framework must include nationally agreed metrics...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 18 months of the date on which this Act is passed, publish a Modern Service Framework for Respiratory Disease (a ‘respiratory MSF’). (2)...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 12 months of the date on which this Act is passed, publish a delivery plan for each of the transformative technology commitments set out in...
[Emma Lewell in the Chair]
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 12 months of the date on which this Act is passed, publish a delivery plan for each of the transformative technology commitments set out in...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which this Act is passed, make an order under section 60 of the Health Act 1999 (regulation of...
“(1) Within six months beginning on the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must establish a scheme to improve access to dental provision (‘the Scheme’). (2)...
“(1) Within six months beginning on the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must make provision relating to Accident and Emergency Department admission. (2) Provision...
“In the National Health Service Act 2006, after section 1CC (inserted by section 6 of this Act) insert— ‘1CD Duty as respects waiting times for women’s health The...
‘(1) Within three months of the passage of this Act the Secretary of State must make regulations which ensure that puberty blockers may not be prescribed, dispensed or supplied to persons...
“(1) Within one year beginning on the date on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must ensure that there is adequate provision of NHS dentistry in Surrey & East Hampshire....
“(1) The Arrangement between the United States of America and the United Kingdom on pharmaceutical pricing may be ratified only if— (a) a Minister of the Crown has laid before the...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act is passed, publish a strategy on anti-vaccine and medical disinformation (‘the...
“(1) Within six months beginning on the day on which this Act is passed, the Secretary of State must, by regulations, make provision for minimum service levels to operate in the NHS during...
“(1) It is an offence for medical practitioners to undertake strike action. (2) The Secretary of State may repeal or otherwise amend provisions in the Employment Rights Act 2025, insofar as...
“(1) Any organisation in receipt of public funding to provide health or social care services in England is exempt from the Public Sector Equality Duty (Chapter 1 of the Equality Act 2010)...
“(1) The Secretary of State must publish every quarter the number of avoidable deaths where waits of more than 12 hours in accident and emergency departments was a contributory factor. (2)...
“(1) This section applies where the Secretary of State commissions a review or a report into a patient safety issue. (2) The Secretary of State must— (a) decide within six months...
“NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts must ensure that all general practitioners are able to directly refer patients to consultants.”— This new clause would ensure that GPs must...
“(1) The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act 2026 is amended as follows. (2) In section 4, after subsection (4) insert— ‘(4A) A person is within this subsection if they—...
“(1) Within 12 months of the passage of this Act and every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of State must publish and lay before both Houses of Parliament a report on— (a) the...
“(1) The Secretary of State must publish annually and lay before Parliament a report on— (a) the provision of NHS care in relation to dementia, and (b) provision of social care in...
“The Secretary of State must, within 30 days of the day on which this Act is passed, publish the government’s response to the Hughes Report.”— This new clause would...
“(1) The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act 2026 is amended as follows. (2) In section 1, at end insert— ‘(2) Applicants eligible under this section shall be prioritised...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 30 days of the day on which this Act is passed, publish a plan for the management of acquired brain injury across England. (2) A plan under...
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 90 days of the date on which this Act receives Royal Assent, publish a women's health implementation plan (the ‘implementation plan’)...
“(1) Guidance issued by the Secretary of State under section 14Z58 of the National Health Service Act 2006 as amended by section 24(4) of this Act (neighbourhood health plan) must require...
“Within 12 months of the date on which this Act receives Royal Assent, the Secretary of State must publish an assessment of— (a) opportunities to support self-care and prevention...
“After section 14Z44 of the NHS Act 2006 insert— ‘Duty to collect information: Deaths awaiting palliative care (1) Each integrated care board must collect data on the number of...
“The Secretary of State must ensure that any funding for hospices is allocated for three-year periods.” This new clause places a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that funding...
“(1) Within six months of the passage of this Act, and every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of State must publish a report on the extent to which the duty for due regard for health and...
“1 The National Health Service Act 2006 is amended as follows. 2 (1) Section 130 (regulations as to pharmaceutical services: appeals, etc) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (2) for...
168B National disqualification orders (1) The First-tier Tribunal may make a disqualification order in respect of a person on an application made in accordance with this section. (2) A...
I beg to move amendment 77, in clause 68, page 47, line 27, leave out from “to” to the end of line 28 and insert “the affirmative procedure”. This amendment ensures that...
Amendment made: 80, in clause 70, page 48, line 18, at end insert— “(2A) Section (Medical Devices Regulations 2002: mutual recognition agreements) extends to England and Wales and...
Amendments made: 81, in clause 71, page 48, line 25, leave out “Section 63” and insert “The following”. This paves the way for Amendment 82. Amendment 82, in clause 71,...
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