Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

moved Amendment No. 238BA: 238BA: Clause 213, page 148, line 21, leave out ““requires,”” The noble Baroness said: Amendments Nos. 238BA to 238BC would take out the terms ““requires”” in two places and ““prohibits”” in another place. I could have done more surgery, but the short point is to understand what there could be that is not covered by ““regulates””. Debates on Report in the Commons dealt mainly with what entities were connected with or controlled by local authorities. The term ““requires”” is interesting in the context of entities controlled by local authorities and trusts connected with local authorities. Generally, a Secretary of State will make an order very often to stop a local authority doing something. When we talk about these semi-detached or detached entities, which should of course be completely detached, one can see that the regulations—I used the term ““regulates”” before—might be about stopping something happening because central government felt that it was inappropriate for such an entity or a trust to undertake the activity in question. It may be a rather different matter for the Secretary of State to require an entity controlled by a local authority or a trust to do something. Given that positive function, it is worth understanding what is in the Government’s mind. I beg to move.