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Independent Sector Treatment Centres

Witnesses made anecdotal allegations with no evidence whatever, and we asked them about that not on just one occasion, but on several occasions, and when they sat in front of us giving evidence. They could not even back up evidence that they had put on websites. The hon. Gentleman is taking one side. While we were critical of the BOA, I thought we took a steady line, because we did not say that it was not telling the truth. We said that there was no evidence for what it was saying. How can one side be accepted without the evidence being checked? That is what the hon. Gentleman seems to be doing today.