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House of Commons

Tuesday 6th March 2007

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

[fifteenth and sixteenth Sittings]

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Withdrawn  226

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  28,  after ‘of’, insert ‘access to’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  197

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  34,  at end insert ‘and to patients and the public’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  227

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  34,  at end insert—

‘(d)
notifying relevant transport bodies of any problems or improvements in

access to care services.’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  198

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  35,  leave out subsection (3).

Patrick Hall

Not called  182

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  36,  leave out ‘or omitting any of’.

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Patrick Hall

Withdrawn  180

Clause  153,  page  109,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘(4A)
The Secretary of State shall make payments to each local authority that are in the

opinion of the Secretary of State sufficient to cover the costs incurred by that local

authority in making contractual arrangements specified under subsection (1).

(4B)
Nothing in this section shall prevent a local authority making contractual

arrangements under subsection (1) so as to ensure that the activities specified in

subsection (2) are carried on to a greater extent than would be the case if the

arrangements were to cost no more than the payments made available under

subsection (4A).

(4C)
The Secretary of State must send to the Comptroller and Auditor General within

sixty days after the end of the financial year a statement showing the payments

made to each local authority under subsection (4A) and the costs incurred by each

local authority in making contractual arrangements under subsection (1).

(4D)
The Comptroller and Auditor General must examine, certify and report on the

statement provided by the Secretary of State under subsection (4C) and must lay

copies of the statement and of his report before Parliament.’.

Clause Agreed to.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  199

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(2A)
A local involvement network must consist of—

(a)
individual members;

(b)
representatives of organisations; and

(c)
mechanisms for participation of individuals in A’s area who are not

members.’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  201

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  17,  at end insert ‘and who does not commission or

provide local care services’.

Patrick Hall

Not called  183

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘( )
In making arrangements, A may select as H either the National Health

Involvement Network or such other person who in the opinion of A is able to

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deliver such an arrangement under section 153(1) so that it meets the general duty

as set out in section 3 of the Local Government Act 1999.’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  200

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘(3A)
In making the arrangements, H must invite all members of patients’ forums in A’s

area to become individual members of the local involvement network.’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Withdrawn  228

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  26,  at end insert—

‘(h)
any organisation providing local care services.’.

Patrick Hall

Not called  184

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  27,  at end insert—

‘( )
The arrangements must provide that a local involvement network is provided with

the staff, premises and resources that are necessary in the opinion of A for the

local involvement network to carry on in A’s area activities specified in section

153(2).’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  229

Clause  154,  page  110,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘(7)
No chair of an organisation listed under subsections (4)(d) to (4)(h) shall also be

a leader of a Local Involvement Network.’.

Clause Agreed to.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  202

Clause  155,  page  111,  line  2,  at end insert—

‘(f)
any other organisation contracted to provide care services.’.

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Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  230

Clause  155,  page  111,  line  2,  at end insert—

‘(f)
any care provider commissioned to deliver local services.’.

Clause Agreed to.

Patrick Hall

Agreed to  219

Clause  156,  page  111,  line  9,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  231

Clause  156,  page  111,  line  10,  after first ‘a’, insert ‘locally funded’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  232

Clause  156,  page  112,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(f)
any care provider commissioned to deliver local services.’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  203

Clause  156,  page  111,  line  11,  leave out ‘view’ and insert ‘inspect’.

Patrick Hall

Not called  220

Clause  156,  page  111,  leave out lines 15 to 19.

Patrick Hall

Not called  221

Clause  156,  page  111,  leave out lines 22 to 38.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  204

Clause  156,  page  112,  line  10,  at end insert—

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‘(f)
any other organisation contracted to provide care services.’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  205

Clause  157,  page  112,  line  13,  leave out ‘social’.

Clause Agreed to.

Clause 158 Agreed to.

Mr Phil Woolas

Agreed to  135

Clause  159,  page  114,  line  33,  leave out from ‘council’ to ‘county’ in line 34 and

insert ‘in England, other than a council for a district in a county for which there is a’.

Clause, as amended, Agreed to.

Clause 160 agreed to on division.

Clauses 161 and 162 Agreed to.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  206

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  4,  at end insert—

‘(e)
any other organisation contracted to provide care services;’.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Withdrawn  223

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  9,  after ‘representatives’, insert ‘which shall include

Local Involvement Networks’.

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Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Withdrawn  207

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  11,  leave out ‘significant’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  208

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  13,  leave out ‘significant’.

Patrick Hall

Not called  222

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  14,  at end insert—

‘(1BA)
For the purposes of subsection (1B)(c) decisions affecting the operation of

services shall include any decision that changes the organisation responsible for

any of the services that are delivered.’.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  209

Clause  163,  page  117,  leave out lines 15 to 20.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  210

Clause  163,  page  117,  leave out lines 21 to 26.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Not called  233

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  26,  at end insert—

‘(c)
the physical access and travel to those services by users.’.

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Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  217

Clause  163,  page  117,  leave out lines 27 to 29.

Alistair Burt

Mr Robert Syms

Michael Fabricant

Robert Neill

Mr David Burrowes

Mr Philip Dunne

Not called  218

Clause  163,  page  117,  line  30,  leave out ‘subsections (1B) to (1E)’ and insert

‘subsection (1B)’.

Clause Agreed to.

Andrew Stunell

Tom Brake

Dr John Pugh

Withdrawn  234

Clause  164,  page  118,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(c)
on any disagreements between the Trust and the Local Involvement

Network or a Local Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.’.

Clause Agreed to.

[Adjourned till Thursday at 9.30 a.m.