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Health and Social Care Bill

I make one point for when the Minister takes this issue away. The forceful point that he made in his reply was about the capacity for the new commission to be able to change its priorities to meet the requirements set for it. I have every sympathy, having been a regulator in four different kinds of services. I understand that point, but what the Minister has not addressed and what I hope he takes away is the real concern that that change of priorities might result in the health service taking over social care and social care being lost in the mire of all the other services’ demands, which are huge. I hope that the noble Lord will hear that point, as he has not addressed it in his reply.