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Health and Social Care Bill

I thank the Minister for that reply, but the Committee is becoming a bit like that programme on Radio 4, ““Points of View””. I do not know whether other Members of the Committee ever listen to it, but the producer of the programme always comes back and says that what he did was absolutely right and the listeners were absolutely wrong and should not have raised the issue. It is beginning to feel a bit like that. To me, this seems to be the most innocuous phrase. The amendment would not ““impose”” sustainable development; it does not talk about taking to court or closing down any establishment that does not operate according to the government sustainable development strategy. It merely calls for the commission to promote sustainable development, which the Minister seems to have said in her reply that the Bill will do anyway. I still do not understand why we cannot use those words, but we will come back to this. We feel strongly about it—the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, will know that Liberal Democrats feel very strongly indeed about the future of our planet—and we shall come back to it, but I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.