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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

There is nothing sinister in Amendment No. 255C. By amending Section 53 of the Local Government Act 2000 so that members of an elected executive are unable to sit on a standards committee of a local authority, it is consistent with the existing arrangements, which prevent an elected mayor or executive leader sitting on a standards committee. Since standards committees have been established, members of the executive have never been able to be members. It is not a policy change; it is simply terminology. My background notes on Amendment No. 272 are elliptical in the extreme. The noble Baroness’s point refers to Part 3 of the Bill. I should be grateful if she will allow me to write to her on that. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 239, as amended, agreed to. Clauses 240 and 241 agreed to. Clause 242 [Power to make further amendments and repeals]: