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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

May I take the Minister back to the example I cited of the independent sector treatment centre? The concern in West Yorkshire about such a centre was that it would be a transfer not just of services but of resources, which would undermine the ability of existing NHS trusts to provide services to other patients. The Minister seems to argue that people would not regard that as a significant change, but I have to tell him that people in West Yorkshire and Leeds would view it as a significant change.