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Health and Social Care Bill

moved Amendment No. 219A: 219A: After Clause 157, insert the following new Clause— ““Provisions applicable to England and Wales (1) Schedule (Provisions applicable to England and Wales) sets out the differences in application of provisions relating to health and social care to England and Wales. (2) Schedule (Provisions applicable to England and Wales) has no legal effect.”” The noble Baroness said: We have a devolved health service in Wales. Much of the Bill applies to both England and Wales but there are parts that apply only to England and there are parts that apply only to Wales. The variation between regulations and legislation in the two countries is increasing and it is essential that people who are providing any kind of health and social care services in Wales, in England and in both countries—particularly those dealing with cross-border issues and cross-border flows—know what pertains to which area. I am absolutely convinced that the Minister will say that the amendment cannot go in the Bill, but I live in great hope that she will recognise that such a table is essential for understanding the law in the future and that she will say that the Government may be minded to put it in the guidance that goes with the Act. I rather hope that the Government may even see fit routinely to put such tables in the guidance to every Act that pertains to England and Wales. Such a table would have saved me and those who have helped me an enormous amount of work in putting this together. I am trying to brief; the amendment is long. I beg to move.