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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

It was a common-sense plea that we need to see a draft if we are to make sense of some of the points which we would otherwise pursue on Report. I should have thought that autumn continued beyond October, so I was a bit more worried than my noble friend was when I heard that we will see the draft guidance in the autumn. I do not know whether State Opening defines the seasons. Although he did not put it this way, my noble friend also referred to a new professional class of officers that will be required to make sense of the interrelationship between these things. I should have thought that he was entirely right about that, and it adds to my concern that we should seek to avoid creating a huge amount of paperwork as opposed to good service, which, after all, is what this should be about. Having said that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.