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Proceeding contribution from Earl Howe (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 23 July 2007. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill.


Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

The noble Baroness has made a brave attempt to respond to the points made in this extremely interesting debate, but I am afraid that I remain pretty unconvinced that we have anything comprehensible here. In these amendments, I was trying to pin down a sense of what legal identity, if any, LINks would have. I am puzzled by that because while the Bill tells us that a local involvement network is a person, we are told that it cannot be a statutory body. It seems an odd contradiction to state in the Bill that a LINk is a person while we are told that it has no legal identity. Can the Minister clarify that, before we go further?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
694 c584 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Accountability Health services Local government Patients Public participation Social services Patients' forums Local involvement networks
Legislation
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill 2006-07
Link
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