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Health Bill

My Lords, I am, naturally, extremely disappointed. After the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, and I had conversed in the Corridor about this, I thought that the amendment would meet with a certain amount of government acceptance. I shall read very carefully exactly what the Minister said. With the greatest possible respect, I think there was rather a lot of civil servant jargon in his reply and it was rather difficult to understand exactly what he was trying to get at. Before I withdraw the amendment, perhaps I may ask the Minister whether he will be kind enough to spare me 10 minutes in his office before we come to Third Reading because I should like to explore this matter in a little more depth.