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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for her very positive response to the points that I raised and to those endorsed by other noble Lords who have spoken, for whose support I am also grateful. I thank the Minister for making it clear to me who was responding to the debate, although, having sufficiently made her name already, that was hardly necessary. The noble Baroness is absolutely right that, essentially, I was drawing attention to the complexity of these issues, and no one would expect an instant solution this evening. I am most grateful that the Minister has recognised and taken full delivery of their importance, that she has undertaken to look at them with the department to see whether they can be unravelled and that she has agreed to meet the voluntary organisations, disability groups and others involved to see whether, as I suggested, a way forward can be found. For all that, I am most grateful to her and I happily beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.