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Emily Thornberry

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Clause  170,  page  142,  line  22,  at end insert—

‘(1)	Each local authority must make such arrangements as it considers appropriate for

the provision of advice and information about access to local care services and

about choices that may be made with respect to aspects of those services.

(2)	Where arrangements under subsection (1) provide for the local Healthwatch

organisation for the authority’s area to provide the services or to arrange for their

provision, the arrangements are to be treated for the purposes of this Part as

arrangements made under section 221(1).’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  170,  page  142,  line  40,  at end insert—

‘( )	Each local authority may make such other arrangements as it considers

appropriate for the provision of services providing assistance to individuals in

connection with complaints relating to the provision of services as part of the

health service.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  170,  page  142,  line  40,  at end insert—

‘( )	Arrangements under this section may not provide for a person to make

arrangements for the provision of services by a Local Healthwatch organisation.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  170,  page  142,  line  42,  leave out from ‘provide’ to end of line 45 and insert

‘services—

(a)	the arrangements are to be treated for the purposes of this Part as

arrangements made under section 221(1), and

(b)	the provision of the services is to be treated for those purposes as an

activity specified in section 221(2).’.

Mr Simon Burns

429

Clause  170,  page  143,  line  1,  leave out subsection (4).

Mr Simon Burns

430

Clause  170,  page  143,  line  6,  after ‘under’ insert ‘or in pursuance of’.

Mr Simon Burns

431

Clause  170,  page  143,  line  12,  leave out ‘; but this subsection’ and insert ‘and to

any person arranging for the provision of services in pursuance of such arrangements.

( )	But subsection (6)’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  170,  page  143,  line  13,  leave out from ‘apply’ to ‘, by’ in line 14 and insert

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‘in a case where the person is a person to whom’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  171,  page  144,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘( )	In subsection (4), in paragraph (a), after “arrangements made under” insert “or in

pursuance of”.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  171,  page  144,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘(9)	For the purposes of subsections (1), (5) and (8) “service providers” shall have the

same meaning as described in section 175(4) and shall additionally include any

commissioner or provider of publicly funded social care services.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  171,  page  144,  line  29,  at end add—

‘(13)

Section 226 of that Act, as amended by subsections (9) to (12) above, shall apply

where a local Healthwatch organisation refers a matter relating to social care

services to an overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority or to the

authority itself where overview and scrutiny committees are not operated.’.

Emily Thornberry

356

Clause  172,  page  144,  line  35,  leave out ‘and’ and insert ‘or’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  173,  page  146,  line  7,  at end insert—

‘( )	After that subsection insert—

“(2A)

Provision under subsection (2)(a)(ii) is not to be taken as requiring H to

prepare a report in relation to the provision by the Local Healthwatch

organisation concerned of services under arrangements made under

section 223A.”’.

Mr Simon Burns

435

Clause  173,  page  146,  line  16,  after ‘(4)’ insert ‘—

(a)	after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

the National Health Service Commissioning Board;

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(ab)	each commissioning consortium, whose area or any part

of whose area falls within the area of the local

authority;”,

(b)

’.

Mr Simon Burns

436

Clause  173,  page  146,  line  18,  at end insert ‘, and

( )	omit paragraph (d) (but not the following “and”).’.

Mr Simon Burns

437

Clause  174,  page  147,  line  1,  at end insert—

‘( )	Omit section 228 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act

2007 (previous transitional arrangements).’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  175,  page  147,  leave out lines 8 to 10.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  175,  page  147,  line  25,  at end insert ‘in addition to any regulations relating

to the referral of proposals for changes to services, the regulations may also provide for

circumstances where referrals may be made either to the Board or the Secretary of State

where local authorities or commissioning consortia are considered not to have had due

regard to their duties to have regard to relevant health and well-being strategies when

exercising their functions.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  175,  page  148,  line  31,  at end insert—

‘( )	Until the coming into force of paragraph 26 of Schedule 3 to the Localism Act

2011, section 21 of the Local Government Act 2000 (overview and scrutiny

committees) is amended as follows—

(a)	in subsection (2)(f)—

(i)	omit “section 244 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or”,

(ii)	for “either of those sections” substitute “that section”,

(iii)

for “the Act concerned” substitute “that Act”, and

(iv)	for “the section concerned” substitute “that section”,

(b)	omit subsection (2A)(a) and (b), and

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(c)	in subsection (4) at the end insert “or under section 244(2ZD) of the

National Health Service Act 2006.”’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  176,  page  149,  line  9,  leave out ‘for which a partner commissioning

consortium is established’ and insert ‘of a partner commissioning consortium’.

Emily Thornberry

360

Clause  176,  page  149,  line  25,  leave out from ‘consortium’ to end of line 26 and

insert ‘must consult any relevant district councils in the area covered by the assessment

and any other person, groups of people or representatives of persons or groups it considers

can provide advice about the health and social care needs of the population of its area.’.

Emily Thornberry

366

Clause  176,  page  149,  line  25,  leave out from ‘consortium’ to end of line 26 and

insert ‘must consult the public and all interested groups following the Cabinet Office’s

code of practice on consultations, making sure that consultation is an integral part of

preparing its joint strategic needs assessment’.

Mr Simon Burns

440

Clause  176,  page  149,  line  31,  leave out ‘established for an area which’ and insert

“whose area’.

Mr Simon Burns

441

Clause  176,  page  149,  line  38,  leave out ‘for which the commissioning consortium

is established’ and insert “of the commissioning consortium’.

Grahame M. Morris

220

Clause  177,  page  150,  line  19,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

In preparing a strategy under this section, the responsible local authority and each

of its partner commissioning consortia must have regard to the most recent

assessment of housing need undertaken by the local planning authority.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  177,  page  150,  line  23,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

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Emily Thornberry

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  14,  leave out ‘a representative’ and insert

‘representatives’.

Grahame M. Morris

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘(fa)

the officer principally responsible for the exercise of the local authority’s

housing functions, or if thought fit, a representative officer of a registered

provider of social housing.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘(g)	the director of housing services for the local authority,

(h)	a representative of the police service for the area of the local authority.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  18,  at end insert ‘a representative of any relevant district

councils’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  28,  after ‘appoint’, insert ‘more than’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  178,  page  151,  line  31,  leave out subsection (7).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  178,  page  152,  line  13,  leave out ‘established for an area which’ and insert

“whose area’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  179,  page  152,  line  27,  leave out ‘encourage’ and insert ‘ensure’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

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Clause  179,  page  152,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

A Health and Wellbeing Board must, for the purposes of advancing the health and

wellbeing of the people in its area, ensure that commissioners and providers of

health care services for the purposes of the NHS cooperate with other providers

of health care services, commissioning consortia, local authorities and the

National Health Service Commissioning Board.

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(1B)	If a Health and Wellbeing Board finds that a licensed provider of health services

for the purposes of the NHS is failing in its duty to cooperate with other providers

of health services for the purposes of the NHS, commissioning consortia, local

authorities and the National Health Service Commissioning Board, it shall refer

the matter to Monitor for consideration.’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  179,  page  152,  line  33,  after ‘such’, insert ‘integrated’.

Emily Thornberry

363

Clause  179,  page  152,  line  34,  leave out ‘encourage’ and insert ‘ensure’.

Emily Thornberry

364

Clause  179,  page  152,  line  37,  leave out ‘encourage’ and insert ‘ensure’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  179,  page  152,  line  45,  after ‘service’ insert ‘in England’.

Mr Simon Burns

444

Clause  179,  page  152,  line  45,  at end insert—

‘ “health service” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service

Act 2006;’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  180,  page  153,  line  15,  at end insert ‘a health and well-being board

preparing to give an opinion in respect of this section shall have regard to the views of any

relevant overview and scrutiny committee on whether the authority is discharging its duty

under section 116B (duty to have regard to assessments and strategies).’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  181,  page  153,  line  32,  leave out ‘authority’s area’ and insert ‘area of the

authority that established the Health and Wellbeing Board’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  181,  page  153,  line  42,  at end insert—

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‘ “health service” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service

Act 2006.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  183,  page  154,  line  14,  leave out ‘(9)’ and insert ‘(8)’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  183,  page  154,  line  16,  leave out ‘(9)’ and insert ‘(8)’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  52,  page  62,  line  36,  leave out ‘in particular’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  52,  page  63,  line  9,  leave out subsection (6).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  52,  page  63,  line  12,  at end insert ‘, with a reference in this Part to health

care services being read accordingly; and for the purposes of this Part it does not matter

if a health care service is also an adult social care service (as to which, see section 53).’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

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Clause  54,  page  64,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘(ea)

the need for commissioners of health care services to cooperate with one

another with respect to section 72 of the National Health Service Act

2006 and with providers of health services for the purposes of the NHS

to ensure that providers of health services cooperate with other providers

of health care services, commissioning consortia, local authorities and

the National Health Service Commissioning Board,’.

Emily Thornberry

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Clause  54,  page  64,  line  22,  at end insert—

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