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Health and Social Care Bill

This is Committee, so perhaps I may intervene again to say that that issue greatly concerns me, too, but it comes up later in the Bill, not here. The crucial issue here is that the amendments would overturn the principle of having one body that sets standards and another that has to look at the legal issue of whether those standards have been breached. It is for exactly that reason that I am not willing to support them. That principle, which was wrested from Janet Smith’s report and which defined the different responsibilities of the standard-setting body and the body that had to decide on sanctions, is exactly what would be breached if the amendments were approved.