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Health and Social Care Bill

Perhaps I may take one minute of the Committee’s time quickly to make two points. I strongly support the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Barker. I was a Mental Health Act commissioner for about five years and from time to time visited such institutions where we would find a little thing missing or a legal point out of order. However, that was quite different when we made an unannounced visit. Then we found that someone had committed suicide because, because, because—we gained a whole raft of information on those unannounced visits. I cannot say what a difference that made to the efficacy of the commission. So, any more visiting should be of an unannounced kind. My second point concerns the links that some of us talked about at great length on previous legislation. I have trouble thinking about how the LINks people are going to be affected. It may be that with the CQC, possibly being invited by the CQC to make unannounced visits on its behalf and report back, there could be a really valuable role for the new LINks. I do not need to take up any more of the Committee’s time.