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Thursday 25 June 2009

 

Public Bill Committee

 

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Health Bill [Lords]


 

Note

 

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

 

Committee [16 June 2009].

 


 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

69

 

Schedule  5,  page  55,  line  26,  at end insert—

 

    ‘(4)  

Where the Local Commissioner chooses not to disapply, he must write to the

 

complainant giving reasons for his decision.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

53

 

Schedule  5,  page  56,  line  8,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

70

 

Schedule  5,  page  56,  leave out line 14 and insert—

 

    ‘(2)  

The Local Commissioner may choose to conduct an investigation under this

 

part in private.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

71

 

Schedule  5,  page  56,  line  30,  at end insert—


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 25 June 2009                     

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‘FA    

Complaints: Emergency Action

 

(1)    

If, on receiving a complaint under section 34D, the Local Commissioner has

 

immediate and urgent concerns, he may inform—

 

(a)    

the Care Quality Commission,

 

(b)    

the local authority,

 

(c)    

the Police,

 

(d)    

the Secretary of State.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State may issue guidelines on circumstances of “immediate and

 

urgent concern”. These may include—

 

(a)    

all forms of abuse,

 

(b)    

malnutrition,

 

(c)    

infection.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

54

 

Schedule  5,  page  56,  line  35,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

105

 

Schedule  5,  page  57,  line  15,  at end insert—

 

  ‘(8A)  

A Local Commissioner may apply to the High Court in order that a judge may

 

issue any order in regard to evidence with the powers of compulsion available

 

to such judicial authority which would not otherwise be available to the Local

 

Commissioner’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

72

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  3,  after ‘provider’, insert ‘or any other person’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

73

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  9,  at end insert—

 

  ‘(4A)  

“any other person” under section 34H(4) may include—

 

(a)    

the Care Quality Commission,

 

(b)    

the local authority,

 

(c)    

the Secretary of State,

 

(d)    

the Department of Health’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

75

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  24,  at end insert ‘and

 

(c)    

the Member of Parliament in whose constituency any person concerned

 

under section 34H(6) lives or works.’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 25 June 2009                     

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Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

55

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  25,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

76

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(8A)    

In the case of section 34H(8)(b) applying, the Local Commissioner must submit

 

his reasons, in writing, to the Secretary of State.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

56

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  44,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

74

 

Schedule  5,  page  58,  line  47,  after ‘provider’, insert ‘or any other person’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

57

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  9,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

58

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  18,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

59

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  28,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

60

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  42,  leave out ‘adult’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

77

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  46,  leave out ‘month’ and insert ‘week’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

61

 

Schedule  5,  page  59,  line  47,  leave out ‘adult’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 25 June 2009                     

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Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

78

 

Schedule  5,  page  61,  line  12,  leave out ‘month’s’ and insert ‘week’s’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

79

 

Schedule  5,  page  62,  line  21,  at end insert ‘or

 

(e)    

the Care Quality Commission’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

80

 

Schedule  5,  page  63,  line  23,  leave out ‘obtain the consent of’ and insert ‘inform’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

81

 

Schedule  5,  page  63,  line  24,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

82

 

Schedule  5,  page  64,  line  42,  at end insert ‘and the content of the complaints it has

 

processed since the last review was made under this subsection.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

139

 

Schedule  5,  page  65,  line  18,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The Local Commissioner may, in the Part 3A annual report, assess the costs of

 

the complaints process borne by—

 

(a)    

the taxpayer; and

 

(b)    

the provider; and

 

(c)    

the service user.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

83

 

Schedule  5,  page  67,  line  30,  at end insert—

 

‘12A      

In Schedule 4 (the Commission), in paragraph 6, after sub-paragraph (3)

 

insert—

 

“(3A)  

Where the Secretary of State is, by primary legislation, intending to

 

add to the functions of the Local Commissions, he shall report to

 

Parliament the impact this will have on future determinations.”’.

 



 
 

Public Bill Committee: 25 June 2009                     

157

 

Health Bill-[ [], continued

 
 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

152

 

Clause  34,  page  32,  line  38,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

 

Mr Mike O’Brien

 

199

 

Page  32,  line  35,  leave out Clause 34.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment removes Clause 34, which was inserted in the House of Lords. Clause 34 enables

 

the Secretary of State to prescribe exceptions to the rule that the proportion of income of NHS foun­

 

dation trusts which were NHS trusts derived from private charges must remain within a defined

 

limit.

 


 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

84

 

Clause  35,  page  33,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

‘(3A)    

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs must publish a list of disclosures of

 

information under subsection (2) to the persons listed in subsection (3), paragraph

 

(e) which must specify—

 

(a)    

the person or persons to whom the information was disclosed; and

 

(b)    

the reason for the disclosure.’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

85

 

Clause  35,  page  33,  line  22,  leave out ‘a’ and insert ‘an anonymised’.

 

Mike Penning

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

161

 

Clause  35,  page  33,  line  23,  after ‘enable’ insert ‘any’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

86

 

Clause  35,  page  33,  line  24,  after ‘person’, insert ‘or practice’.

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

195

 

Clause  35,  page  33,  line  24,  at end insert—

 

‘(4A)    

A person who discloses information in subsection (1) to persons other than those

 

listed at section (3) or for purposes other than in subsection (2), commits an

 

offence.

 

(4B)    

An offence under subsection (4A) may in particular extend to—

 

(a)    

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;

 

(b)    

any person listed under subsection (2);

 

(c)    

any employee of any person listed under subsection (2).


 
 

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(4C)    

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction

 

to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding

 

level 4 on the standard scale.

 

(4D)    

A person or persons to whom the information is disclosed in circumstances under

 

subsection (4A) has a cause of action for damages, including penalty damages,

 

against the discloser.’.

 


 

Mr Mike O’Brien

 

194

 

Clause  40,  page  36,  leave out lines 30 to 33.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment leaves out the common-form provision inserted by the House of Lords at Third

 

Reading to avoid infringing the financial privileges of the House of Commons.

 


 

New ClauseS

 

Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children

 

Mike Penning

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘After section 7(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c. 12) (sale of

 

tobacco, etc, to persons under (eighteen)) insert—

 

“(2A)    

A person commits an offence if he buys or attempts to buy tobacco on

 

behalf of an individual aged under 18.

 

(2B)    

Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (2A), it is a

 

defence that he had taken all reasonable steps to establish the individual’s

 

age, or that from the individual’s appearance nobody could have

 

reasonably suspected that the individual was aged under 18.

 

(2C)    

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary

 

conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.”’.

 


 

Report to parliament on impact of quality accounts

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 25 June 2009                     

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Health Bill-[ [], continued

 
 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall report to Parliament no later than 4 years after the

 

coming into force of Part 1 on the impact of quality accounts.

 

(2)    

The report shall examine the methods and technologies employed by trusts to

 

measure the quality of services and collect data for inclusion in their quality

 

accounts.’.

 


 

Duty to have regard to the Social Care Constitution

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘Any person providing social care under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c.

 

14) must have regard to the Social Care Constitution.’.

 


 

Availability and review of the Social Care Constitution

 

Mr Stephen O’Brien

 

Mike Penning

 

NC4

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State must ensure that the Social Care Constitution continues to

 

be available to service users, staff and members of the public.

 

(2)    

At least once in any period of 10 years the Secretary of State must carry out a

 

review of the Social Care Constitution (referred to in this Chapter as a “10 year

 

review”).

 

(3)    

The following must be consulted about the Social Care Constitution on a 10 year

 

review—

 

(a)    

service users and bodies or other persons representing service users,

 

(b)    

staff and bodies or other persons representing staff of service providers,

 

(c)    

carers,

 

(d)    

local authorities,

 

(e)    

members of the public, and

 

(f)    

such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

 

(4)    

The first 10 year review must be completed not later than 5 July 2018.

 

(5)    

In this Chapter—

 

“carers” has the meaning it has in section 5(4) of the Health and Social Care

 

Act 2008 (c. 14);

 

“service users” has the meaning it has in section 5(4) of the Health and

 

Social Care Act 2008(c. 14);

 

“service providers” has the meaning it has in the Health and Social Care Act

 

2008 (c. 14);

 

“staff” means—


 
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