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HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. We have wandered down the avenue of reconfiguration before in this Committee, and I am sure that we will do so again. The…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Nineteeth sitting)We are not going to push the new clause to a vote, because we recognise when the Minister is not for turning—I am not sure whether he likes that comparison. But I have a couple of…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. If the investment standard is being met across the board, perhaps it is the investment standard that needs looking at rather than the…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Mrs Murray, it really is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning. I echo the comments from the Scottish National party spokesperson. She is correct that the Bill…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I beg to move, that the clause be read a Second time. The Minister referred to my longevity in post, which gives me the advantage of having had this debate with him previously.…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am grateful for the intervention—that is a very fair point. I recently spoke to a CAMHS worker who made that very point. One of their frustrations was that problems were not…27 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)As the Minister has anticipated, clause 113 troubles me somewhat. We have talked extensively about the importance of independence and the need for HSSIB to have the confidence of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)In the light of the Minister’s encouragement, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)As the Minister has told us, the clause seeks to amend section 60 of the Health Act 1999 in relation to making changes to the professional regulatory landscape through secondary…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I do so wish. I will not detain the Committee long on amendment 142. We are seeking to find ways of increasing awareness of rare and less common conditions among healthcare…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 142, in clause 123, page 105, line 13, at end insert— “(f) After subsection (2B) insert— (2C) The regulation of health professions and social care workers…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I thought at one point that the Minister was going to accept the amendment, given the way he was talking about the importance of parliamentary scrutiny and impact assessments. He…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr McCabe. I shall speak in support of amendment 146, which stands in my name and the name of other Opposition Members. There is a…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 116, in clause 124, page 106, line 34, at end insert— “(4A) In subsection (4) in paragraph (e), after “examiners” insert “including the requirement to…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am not going to spend an awful lot of time on these clauses and this schedule, because the Minister has set them out very well, but I want to come back to his reference to…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am not suggesting that anyone might wake up in the morning and decide on a whim to do this, but the fact of the matter is that, as the clause is drafted, if the Secretary of…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Seventeenth sitting)As the Minister has outlined, the purpose of medical examiners is to provide greater safeguards to the public by ensuring proper scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths; to ensure the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)As we have heard, the clauses deal with the requirement to co-operate and I will not go over the ground that we have already trodden on in respect of degrees of co-operation and…26 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Care Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I understand what the Minister is saying: we need the ability to make regulations to give us some flexibility. Equally, the definition of protected material is broad, to give…26 Oct 2021