Primary Care Trusts

I shall be brief. It may be a point that the Chairman might want to consider by way of intervention if he catches your eye for any final remarks, Miss Begg. I note that on page 69 of its report, the Select Committee put to Lord Warner the point about the possible proposal to put out to tender the commissioning function in Oxfordshire. He assured them that that would not be allowed to happen. However, an article has just been passed to me that appears in today’s Health Service Journal in which it says that the Department of Health is doing precisely that by asking for bids and tendering-out processes. I was wondering whether the Minister would like to take the opportunity to comment on that?