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Public Bill Committee: 12 July 2011

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Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

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Page  112,  line  15,  leave out Clause 115.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  116,  page  113,  line  19,  after ‘115(1)(a)’, insert ‘, or in rules provided for in

the national tariff under section 115(3)(b),’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  116,  page  113,  line  24,  leave out subsections (2) to (4) and insert—

‘( )	In the case of a service specified in the national tariff under section 115(1)(a), the

national tariff must—

(a)	if the service is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(a), specify a

national price for each component of the service;

(b)	if it is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(b), specify a national

price for the bundle;

(c)	if it is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(c), specify a single

price as the national price for each service in the group.

( )	In the case of a service specified in rules provided for in the national tariff under

section 115(3)(b), the rules may—

(a)	if the service is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(a), make

provision for determining the price payable for each component of the

service;

(b)	if it is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(b), make provision for

determining the price payable for the bundle;

(c)	if it is specified in accordance with subsection (1)(c), make provision for

determining the price payable for each service in the group.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  116,  page  113,  line  36,  after ‘115’, insert ‘or (as the case may be) in rules

provided for under subsection (3)(b) of that section’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  116,  page  113,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘( )	Where the commissioner of a health care service for the purposes of the NHS

agrees to pay a price for the provision of the service other than the price that is

payable by virtue of this Chapter, Monitor may direct the commissioner to take

such steps within such period as Monitor may specify to secure that the position

is, so far as practicable, restored to what it would have been if the commissioner

had agreed to pay the price payable by virtue of this Chapter.

( )	Where the commissioner of a health care service fails to comply with rules

provided for under section 115(2), (3) or (3B), Monitor may direct the

commissioner to take such steps within such period as Monitor may specify—

(a)	to secure that the failure does not continue or recur;

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(b)	to secure that the position is, so far as practicable, restored to what it

would have been if the failure was not occurring or had not occurred.’.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

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Page  113,  line  17,  leave out Clause 116.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  6,  leave out paragraph (c) and insert—

‘(c)	the prices, determined in each case by using the applicable method

specified under paragraph (b), that Monitor proposes as the national

prices of those services,’.

Mr Simon Burns

177

Clause  117,  page  114,  line  8,  leave out paragraph (d).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  11,  leave out ‘must also specify the rules for which

Monitor proposes to provide’ and insert ‘may specify such rules as Monitor proposes to

provide for’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

The notice may also specify—

(a)	such variations (by reference to circumstances in which a service is

provided or other factors relevant to its provision) as Monitor proposes

to specify to the prices that it proposes as the national prices,

(b)	such rules as Monitor proposes to provide for in the national tariff for

determining the price payable for the provision for the purposes of the

NHS of health care services not specified for the purposes of subsection

(3)(a), and

(c)	such rules as Monitor proposes to provide for in the national tariff for

determining, where a health care service is specified in more than one

way for the purposes of subsection (3)(a) or in more than one way in rules

specified for the purposes of paragraph (b), which specification of the

service is to apply in any particular case or cases of any particular

description.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(4B)

The notice may include guidance as to the application of rules specified for the

purposes of subsection (4) or (4A)(b) or (c) or the application of variations

specified for the purposes of subsection (4A)(a).’.

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Mr Simon Burns

181

Clause  117,  page  114,  line  22,  leave out subsection (6).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  35,  at end insert—

‘( )	Such variations as are specified for the purposes of subsection (4A)(a), and such

guidance on the application of those variations as is included for the purposes of

subsection (4B), are only such variations and such guidance as Monitor considers

should be so specified and included and—

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

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

variations that will be so specified and the guidance that will be so

included.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  36,  leave out subsection (9).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  41,  leave out ‘The rules specified for the purposes of

subsection (4) are only such rules’ and insert ‘Such rules as are specified for the purposes

of subsection (4) or (4A)(c), and such guidance on those rules as is included for the

purposes of subsection (4B), are only such rules and such guidance’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  43,  after ‘specified’, insert ‘and included’.

Mr Simon Burns

186

Clause  117,  page  114,  line  44,  after ‘specified’, insert ‘and included’.

Mr Simon Burns

187

Clause  117,  page  114,  line  46,  after ‘specified’, insert ‘and the guidance that will

be so included’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  117,  page  114,  line  46,  at end insert—

‘(10A)

Such rules as are specified for the purposes of subsection (4A)(b), and such

guidance on those rules as is included for the purposes of subsection (4B), are

only such rules and such guidance as Monitor considers should be so specified

and included and—

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

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

rules that will be so specified and the guidance that will be so included.’.

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Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

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Page  113,  line  38,  leave out Clause 117.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  147,  page  135,  line  7,  at end insert—

‘“anti-competitive behaviour” has the meaning given in section [General

duties: supplementary] and references to preventing anti-competitive

behaviour are to be read in accordance with subsection (2) of that

section;’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  147,  page  135,  line  13,  at end insert—

‘“facilities” has the same meaning as in the National Health Service Act

2006 (see section 275 of that Act);’.

Mr Simon Burns

191

Clause  147,  page  135,  line  16,  leave out ‘56’ and insert ‘[General duties:

supplementary]’.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

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Page  135,  line  6,  leave out Clause 147.

Mr Simon Burns

192

Clause  149,  page  138,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘( )	After paragraph 18D of that Schedule insert—

“18E (1)

The constitution must provide for meetings of the board of directors to

be open to members of the public.

(2)	But the constitution may provide for members of the public to be

excluded from a meeting for special reasons.”’.

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Clause  156,  page  141,  line  34,  at end insert—

‘( )	After section 35(3) of that Act (things the regulator must consider before deciding

whether it is satisfied as to the matters in subsection (2)) insert—

“(3A)

The regulator must not give an authorisation unless it is notified by the

Care Quality Commission that it is satisfied that the applicant is

complying with (so far as applicable) the requirements mentioned in

section 12(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in relation to the

regulated activity or activities the applicant carries on.

(3B)	In subsection (3A), “regulated activity” has the same meaning as in

section 8 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.”’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  165,  page  147,  line  29,  after ‘applicant’, insert ‘(that is an NHS foundation

trust)’.

Mr Simon Burns

195

Clause  165,  page  147,  line  31,  leave out paragraph (a).

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  166,  page  148,  line  12,  after ‘applicant’, insert ‘(that is an NHS foundation

trust)’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  166,  page  148,  line  13,  after ‘must’, insert ‘—

(a)	be supported by the Secretary of State if B is an NHS trust, and

(b)

’.

Mr Simon Burns

198

Clause  176,  page  155,  line  10,  leave out subsections (3) and (4).

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Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

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Page  155,  line  6,  leave out Clause 176.

Mr Simon Burns

199

Clause  178,  page  157,  line  36,  at end insert ‘; and the Commission must inform the

committee in writing of its response or proposed response to the advice.’.

Mr Simon Burns

200

Clause  178,  page  158,  line  31,  after ‘discharge’, insert ‘,

and that the failure is significant’.

Mr Simon Burns

201

Clause  178,  page  158,  line  34,  at end insert—

‘( )	In subsection (2A) of that section (inserted by section [Failure to discharge

functions]), after “(1)” insert “or (1A)”.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  178,  page  158,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘( )	In subsection (4) of that section (inserted by section [Failure to discharge

functions]), after “(1)” insert “, (1A)”.’.

Mr Simon Burns

203

Clause  178,  page  158,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘( )	For the title to that section substitute “Failure by the Commission or Healthwatch

England in discharge of functions”.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  179,  page  160,  line  5,  at end insert—

‘( )	In Part 1 of Schedule 19 to the Equality Act 2010 (bodies subject to public sector

equality duty), after the entry for the Health Service Commissioner for England

insert—

“A Local Healthwatch organisation.”’.

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Mr Simon Burns

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Schedule  15,  page  363,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(3)	The regulations must make provision requiring a person who has

power to appoint a member of an LHW to act with a view to

securing that the members of the LHW (taken together) are

representative of—

(a)	people who live in the LHW’s area,

(b)	people to whom care services are being or may be provided

in that area, and

(c)	people from that area to whom care services are being

provided in any place.

(4)	In sub-paragraph (3), “care services” has the meaning given in

section 221.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Schedule  15,  page  364,  line  2,  at end insert—

‘(5)	In making arrangements under this paragraph, an LHW must act

with a view to securing that, so far as appropriate, the persons with

whom it makes the arrangements (taken together) are representative

of—

(a)	people who live in the LHW’s area,

(b)	people to whom care services are being or may be provided

in that area, and

(c)	people from that area to whom care services are being

provided in any place.

(6)	In sub-paragraph (5), “care services” has the meaning given in

section 221.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Schedule  15,  page  364,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘()	A direction under sub-paragraph (4) may be varied or revoked by a

subsequent direction.’.

Mr Simon Burns

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Clause  180,  page  160,  line  26,  at end insert—

‘( )	After that subsection insert—

“(3A)

A person to whom views are made known or reports or recommendations

are made under subsection (2)(d) must, in exercising any function

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