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NHS Redress Bill [Lords]

There will be consultation on paragraph (b), so the regulations that will flow from the clause will precisely tackle some of the other circumstances where it might not be appropriate to provide the report. It is right that there should be wide consultation on that point, so that we can be precisely clear about where providing the report would not be appropriate. It is impossible to give a 100 per cent. guarantee that that will happen in every case, because that is not how the Bill is drafted. Proposed subsection (2B) has been drafted using the word ““may””. It states that a ““scheme may provide”” to delay the provision of a report or to provide that a report need not be provided in rare cases. It simply gives flexibility.