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Public Bill Committee: 15 March 2011

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Health and Social Care Bill, continued

Mr Simon Burns

385

Clause  90,  page  85,  line  23,  at end insert—

‘( )	The references in subsections (1)(d) and (6) to the activities of a business include

a reference to the activities of an NHS foundation trust in so far as its activities

would not otherwise be the activities of a business.’.

Mr Simon Burns

386

Clause  91,  page  86,  line  31,  leave out ‘licences’ and insert ‘all licences or (as the

case may be) licences of that description’.

Mr Simon Burns

387

Clause  92,  page  87,  line  37,  after ‘applicant’ insert ‘or licence holder concerned’.

Mr Simon Burns

388

Clause  92,  page  87,  line  41,  after ‘applicant’ insert ‘or licence holder concerned’.

Mr Simon Burns

389

Clause  92,  page  87,  line  44,  after ‘applicant’ insert ‘or licence holder concerned’.

Mr Simon Burns

453

Clause  92,  page  88,  line  5,  at end insert—

‘( )	Where the standard conditions applicable to all licences or (as the case may be)

to licences of a particular description are modified pursuant to a reference made

under subsection (4), Monitor—

(a)	may also make such incidental or consequential modifications as it

considers necessary or expedient of any other conditions of a licence

which is affected by the modifications,

(b)	must make (as nearly as may be) the same modifications of those

conditions for the purposes of their inclusion in all licences or (as the case

may be) licences of that description granted after that time, and

(c)	must publish any modifications made under this subsection.’.

Mr Simon Burns

390

Clause  92,  page  88,  line  6,  leave out subsection (7).

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Mr Simon Burns

391

Schedule  8,  page  285,  line  33,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mr Simon Burns

392

Schedule  8,  page  286,  line  20,  after ‘day’ insert ‘after that’.

Mr Simon Burns

517

Schedule  8,  page  288,  line  19,  leave out ‘and (6)’ and insert ‘, (6) and (8) to (11)’.

Mr Simon Burns

518

Schedule  8,  page  288,  line  34,  after ‘(7)’ insert ‘to (11)’.

Mr Simon Burns

393

Schedule  8,  page  288,  line  35,  leave out ‘7’ and insert ‘8’.

Mr Simon Burns

394

Schedule  8,  page  289,  line  44,  leave out ‘offences and’.

Mr Simon Burns

395

Clause  93,  page  89,  line  6,  leave out ‘licences’ and insert ‘all licences or (as the

case may be) licences of that description’.

Mr Simon Burns

454

Schedule  9,  page  290,  line  14,  at end insert—

‘( )	explain the effect of section 96,’.

Mr Simon Burns

455

Schedule  9,  page  291,  line  1,  after ‘period’, insert ‘(“the payment period”)’.

Mr Simon Burns

456

Schedule  9,  page  291,  line  1,  after ‘made’, insert—

‘( )	any discount applicable for early payment of the penalty,’.

Mr Simon Burns

457

Schedule  9,  page  291,  line  5,  at end insert—

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‘()	The payment period must be not less than 28 days beginning with the day after

that on which the final notice is received.’.

Mr Simon Burns

458

Schedule  9,  page  291,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘	Monitor may by notice to a person on whom a discretionary requirement has

been imposed—

(a)	withdraw the discretionary requirement,

(b)	in the case of a variable monetary penalty, reduce the amount of the

penalty or extend the payment period, or

(c)	in the case of a compliance requirement or a restoration requirement,

extend the period specified for taking the steps specified in the

requirement.’.

Mr Simon Burns

459

Schedule  9,  page  291,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘( )	state any discount applicable for early payment of the

penalty,’.

Mr Simon Burns

460

Schedule  9,  page  292,  leave out lines 6 to 8 and insert—

‘()	Monitor may by notice to a person on whom a non-compliance penalty has

been imposed reduce the amount of the penalty or extend the payment period.’.

Mr Simon Burns

461

Schedule  9,  page  293,  line  4,  at end insert—

‘()	But Monitor must not under sub-paragraph (1) publish any part of an

enforcement undertaking which contains commercial information the

disclosure of which Monitor considers would or might significantly harm the

legitimate business interests of any person to whom it relates.’.

Mr Simon Burns

462

Schedule  9,  page  293,  line  33,  leave out ‘the person is to be treated’ and insert

‘Monitor may treat the person’.

Mr Simon Burns

463

Schedule  9,  page  293,  line  35,  leave out ‘accordingly’ and insert ‘if Monitor

decides so to treat the person’.

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Mr Simon Burns

396

Clause  99,  page  92,  line  7,  leave out ‘licence holder’ and insert ‘person’.

Mr Simon Burns

397

Clause  101,  page  93,  line  13,  leave out ‘for the time being published’.

Mr Simon Burns

464

Clause  102,  page  93,  line  33,  leave out ‘within a specified period’ and insert ‘(or to

do, or not to do, any such things in a specified manner) within such period as may be

specified’.

Mr Simon Burns

465

Clause  102,  page  93,  line  41,  leave out ‘the trust’ and insert ‘a person’.

Mr Simon Burns

466

Clause  102,  page  93,  line  42,  after ‘(5)’, insert ‘(a)’.

Mr Simon Burns

467

Clause  102,  page  93,  line  45,  leave out ‘that subsection’ and insert ‘subsection (5)’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

187

Clause  103,  page  94,  line  27,  leave out from ‘service’ to end of line 30.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

188

Clause  104,  page  94,  line  40,  leave out ‘, or maximum prices,’.

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Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

189

Clause  104,  page  94,  line  42,  leave out ‘, or maximum price,’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

190

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  8,  leave out ‘or maximum price’.

Mr Simon Burns

398

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The national tariff may also provide—

(a)	for rules for the variation in specified circumstances of prices specified

under subsection (1)(c);

(b)	for rules relating to the payment of prices so specified.’.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

204

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘(3)	Any agreement reached under subsection (2) must be approved by the Board in

order to have effect.’.

Mr Simon Burns

399

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  10,  at end insert ‘and, where the national tariff provides

for rules under subsection (2A), as to the application of those rules.’.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

205

Clause  104,  page  95,  leave out lines 15 to 19.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

191

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  16,  leave out ‘or different maximum prices’.

Mr Simon Burns

192

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  19,  at end insert—

‘( )	A description for the purposes of subsection (6)(b) may not be framed by

reference to—

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(a)	whether the provider is in public or private ownership, or

(b)	some other aspect of the status of the provider.’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

193

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  20,  leave out ‘, or a maximum price,’.

Mr Simon Burns

400

Clause  104,  page  95,  line  21,  leave out from first ‘the’ to end of line 23 and insert

‘public health functions of the Secretary of State, or of a local authority, under the

National Health Service Act 2006.’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

194

Clause  105,  page  95,  line  40,  leave out ‘, or maximum prices,’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

195

Clause  105,  page  95,  line  42,  leave out ‘or maximum price’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

196

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  8,  leave out ‘or maximum price’.

Mr Simon Burns

401

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

The notice must also specify—

(a)	any rules for which Monitor proposes to provide in the national tariff for

the variation in specified circumstances of prices specified in the national

tariff;

(b)	any rules for which it proposes so to provide relating to the payment of

prices so specified.’.

Mr Simon Burns

544

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  14,  at end insert—

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‘( )	In exercising functions under subsection (5), the Board and Monitor must act with

a view to securing the standardisation throughout England of the specification of

health care services in the national tariff under section 104(1)(a).’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

197

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  20,  leave out ‘, or maximum prices,’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

198

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  21,  leave out ‘or maximum prices’.

Mr Simon Burns

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

199

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  25,  leave out ‘or maximum prices’.

Mr Simon Burns

402

Clause  105,  page  96,  line  36,  at end insert—

‘( )	Any rules specified for the purposes of subsection (4A) are only such rules as the

Board considers should be so specified and—

(a)	as the Board and Monitor agree will be so specified, or

(b)	in default of agreement, as are determined by arbitration as being the

rules that will be so specified.’.

Mr Simon Burns

403

Schedule  10,  page  296,  line  32,  leave out ‘(3)’ and insert ‘(4)’.

Mr Simon Burns

404

Schedule  10,  page  296,  line  34,  leave out ‘that sub-paragraph’ and insert ‘sub-

paragraph (3)’.

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