I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and for his comments about my noble Friends in another place; as he says, we have worked closely together.
May I ask about legal aid, which he just mentioned? The Secretary of State effectively said, ““Well, people can go to court anyway,”” but is it the hon. Gentleman’s judgment that people who apply for legal aid opt for negligence? Once NHS redress is up and running, the legal aid people will say, ““Well, there is a redress scheme and we aren’t going to spend taxpayers’ money on legal aid,”” so people on low incomes will not have the option of going to court.
NHS Redress Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Steve Webb
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 June 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on NHS Redress Bill [HL].
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
447 c40 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2024-04-21 12:52:42 +0100
URI
http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_327441
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_327441
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_327441