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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response, but I do not agree with her. The problem is that once anything is in legislation, however much we might like to keep our fingers crossed and hope that it will be used only in the way that the Minister describes, it can be used as it is used. The fact that there is a possibility of an invitation being issued far in the future means that many could be issued if the Government chose to do some restructuring in that way. It is an unhappy situation that we are not bringing this particular aspect of the Bill to an end. It would have been nice to have done so before everything else started at the beginning, since we are to some extent dealing with retrospective legislation, but I hear what the Minister says. I see that everyone is piling up for the next business, and I therefore beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.