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Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 40:"Page 75, line 34, after ““may”” insert—" ““(a) prescribe conditions which must be satisfied in relation to persons before they are appointed as health and social care commissioners; (b)   make provision as to the circumstances in which persons are disqualified for being health and social care commissioners; (c)   ”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, government amendments Nos. 40 and 41 are minor amendments to allow those appointed to the Health and Social Care Appointments Committee to be treated in the same way as the non-executive members of the appointments commission. Schedule 4 provides for regulations prescribing the conditions and disqualifications that apply to the non-executive members of the commission. These regulations may also make provision for the terms on which non-executive members are appointed. Similar provision has also been made for regulations to make provision for the terms on which the health and social care commissioners are appointed. However, the power to make regulations prescribing conditions and disqualifications has not been replicated. At least one, and up to four, of the health and social care commissioners must also be appointed as a non-executive member. Under the terms of the Bill as currently drafted, therefore, it would be possible to prescribe the conditions and disqualifications that applied to those commissioners who were non-executives but not to the remaining commissioners. These amendments therefore allow conditions and disqualifications to be applied to all the health and social care commissioners. Government Amendments Nos. 42, 43, 47 and 48 are purely drafting technical amendments. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.