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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

I appreciate the spirit in which the Minister approaches the matter. He appeared to be surprised by the point that the hon. Member for High Peak (Tom Levitt) made about authorities that had always held all-out elections, and the fact that the Bill is not giving them the opportunity to move to thirds. The Minister expressed surprise that he had not been asked about that previously. Let me remind him that the amendment that we tabled in Committee included those councils, too.