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Health and Social Care Bill

I do not wish to prolong the debate, but this is a key issue. In response, I would make two points. I do not believe, and I see absolutely no evidence, that either the Healthcare Commission or CSCI have in any way held up those innovations. I would say the reverse: that CSCI has very much been to the fore in terms of driving them. So I am not sure that that argument stands. My point is that, as the delivery-commissioning management of services increasingly moves towards individual users, the task of regulation becomes completely different from the regulation of large public authorities. It is not necessarily wrong of noble Lords to ask for more time for regulatory systems and processes to be developed to take on board that substantial change.