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Health and Social Care Bill

I am grateful to all noble Lords for joining in the debate. I said that these are probing amendments, and indeed they have probed. We have been given some answers, but questions have also been raised. I understand the arguments for three members and I understand the complexity of having someone on the panel with professional expertise and how that raises the potential for overlap or perceived duplication with external professional legal advice. I should like to reassure my noble friend Lord Walton that there is no intention behind these amendments to do anything to undermine the provisions in Clause 99, which are absolutely essential for a hearing. I remain concerned that there can be a substitute in the group of three, and that is because somebody will have to be brought up to speed. If the Minister had said that the three members would constitute a quorum and that the panel would be quorate if three members sit continuously throughout the hearing, I would have been greatly reassured. But I can envisage a situation where a panel—