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Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 3)

Does the Secretary of State agree that it is unfortunate that the Government have not had an opportunity to table detailed amendments on how they would deal with situations such as Southern Cross? To table an amendment that simply says, ““At some stage in the future, the Government may be able to do something about a failing organisation such as Southern Cross””, is not necessarily adequate. Although there will be a White Paper on social care next spring, we understand that there are unlikely to be any further details until that point.