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Public Bill Committee Proceedings: 5 July 2011
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Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill, continued

(3)
The Board may direct a commissioning consortium to ensure that its revenue

resource use in a financial year which is attributable to prescribed matters relating

to administration does not exceed an amount specified in the direction.

(4)
The Board may give directions, in relation to a financial year, specifying uses of

capital resources or revenue resources which must, or must not, be taken into

account for the purposes of subsection (1) or (as the case may be) subsection (2)

or (3).

(5)
The Board may not exercise the power conferred by subsection (1) or (2) in

relation to particular matters unless the Secretary of State has given a direction in

relation to those matters under subsection (1) of section 223DB or (as the case

may be) subsection (2) of that section.

(6)
The Board may not exercise the power conferred by subsection (3) in relation to

prescribed matters relating to administration unless the Secretary of State has

given a direction in relation to those matters under subsection (3)(a) of section

223DB.’.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

Not called  38

Clause  23,  page  42,  line  11,  leave out from beginning to end of line 3 on page 43.

Mr Simon Burns

Agreed to  143

Clause  23,  page  42,  line  11,  leave out ‘performance’ and insert ‘quality’.

Mr Simon Burns

Agreed to  144

Clause  23,  page  42,  line  13,  leave out from ‘consortium’ to end of line 15.

Mr Simon Burns

Agreed to  145

Clause  23,  page  42,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(1B)
For the purpose of determining whether to make a payment under subsection (1)

and (if so) the amount of the payment, the Board must take into account at least

one of the following factors—

(a)
the quality of relevant services provided during the financial year;

(b)
any improvement in the quality of relevant services provided during that

year (in comparison to the quality of relevant services provided during

previous financial years);

(c)
the outcomes identified during the financial year as having been achieved

from the provision at any time of relevant services;

(d)
any improvement in the outcomes identified during that financial year as

having been so achieved (in comparison to the outcomes identified

during previous financial years as having been so achieved).

(1C)
For that purpose, the Board may also take into account either or both of the

following factors—

(a)
relevant inequalities identified during that year;

(b)
any reduction in relevant inequalities identified during that year (in

comparison to relevant inequalities identified during previous financial

years).

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Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill, continued

(1D)
Regulations may make provision as to the principles or other matters that the

Board must or may take into account in assessing any factor mentioned in

subsection (1B) or (1C).

(1E)
Regulations may provide that, in prescribed circumstances, the Board may, if it

considers it appropriate to do so—

(a)
not make a payment that would otherwise be made to a consortium under

subsection (1), or

(b)
reduce the amount of such a payment.

(1F)
Regulations may make provision as to how payments under subsection (1) may

be spent (which may include provision as to circumstances in which the whole or

part of any such payments may be distributed to members of the commissioning

consortium).

(1G)
A commissioning consortium must publish an explanation of how the consortium

has spent any payment made to it under subsection (1).

(1H)
In this section—

“relevant services” means services provided in pursuance of arrangements

made by the consortium—

(a)
under section 3 or 3A or Schedule 1, or

(b)
by virtue of section 7A or 12;

“relevant inequalities” means inequalities between the persons for whose

benefit relevant services are at any time provided with respect to—

(a)
their ability to access the services, or

(b)
the outcomes achieved for them by their provision.’.

Mr Simon Burns

Agreed to  146

Clause  23,  page  42,  line  16,  leave out from beginning to end of line 3 on page 43.

Clause, as amended, and Clauses 24, 28 and 29 Agreed to on division.

Liz Kendall

Emily Thornberry

Owen Smith

Debbie Abrahams

Not called  39

Clause  28,  page  46,  line  38,  at end add—

‘(3)
This section comes into force on a date to be specified by order by the Secretary

of State.

(4)
The time specified in subsection (3) must be after such time as the Secretary of

State is satisfied that the workforce education and training functions of strategic

health authorities are being fulfilled by another body.’.

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Health and Social Care (Re-committed) Bill, continued

Mr Simon Burns

Agreed to  147

Schedule  3,  page  262,  line  4,  leave out ‘223J and 223K(2)’ and insert ‘and

223J(3)’.

Schedule, as amended, Agreed to.

[Adjourned until Thursday at 9.00 am



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