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Health Bill [HL]

I thank the Minister for his helpful and encouraging response, particularly about the pilots looking carefully at the impact of this innovation on the wider health economy. However, I worry that momentum may be gained by this process, so I take this opportunity to raise this point one more time. I foresee a certain scenario. Some years ago, a survey of a fairly small sample of young people in care and leaving care found that a quarter of the young women in care were pregnant and that half of them were pregnant shortly after they left care. My slight concern is that one might find, for instance, that poorly educated people who are not well placed to make the most careful judgments about what is in their interests might lose out in a new system where more power is given to individual users. The Minister need not answer my question now. I just wanted to make the point one more time.