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Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill [HL]

I shall be brief. I welcome Amendment No. 36 and the addition of the National Leadership and Innovations Agency for Healthcare. Although I accept what the Government have said about the commissioner’s role in relation to non-devolved areas, it is not absolutely clear to me that the ambulance services and trusts mentioned in Amendment No. 37 fall into that category. I understood that the Assembly had some responsibility for ambulance services and trusts. Similarly, I share the view of the noble Lord, Lord Rowlands, of the police authorities, which are again in part supported financially by the Assembly and local government in Wales. I would be grateful if the Minister could clarify how the police authorities come to be exempt although, strictly speaking, they are not in a non-devolved area.