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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 10: 10: Clause 2, page 2, line 37, leave out ““may”” and insert ““shall”” The noble Baroness said: I can be brief with Amendments Nos.10, 11 and 12 because we have covered the ground to some extent. These amendments were a way of probing the Government’s intention on whether the unitary process is limited to the councils that are currently under consideration or whether there will be future developments. It seemed to us that if we were only talking about those councils, it was rather difficult to see why the Bill contains the provision that the Secretary of State ““may invite or direct”” when the Secretary of State has already done so. We were just trying to understand where we stood with retrospection. I beg to move.