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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 226B: 226B: Clause 173, page 117, line 20, leave out ““paragraphs (b) and (c)”” and insert ““paragraph (b)”” The noble Baroness said: It is nearly the witching hour; I was hoping that the Deputy Chairman of Committees might have gone through those clauses and amendments a little more slowly. Bizarrely, Amendment No. 226B is placed at the beginning of more than two rows of government amendments. The amendment brings us to Clause 173, in the part of the Bill dealing with the Local Government Ombudsman. Having gone round in circles trying to understand why a couple of references in the Local Government Act 1974 were being removed, I thought—lamely, perhaps—that the easiest thing was to table an amendment and see what the Government have to say about it. I beg to move.