Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her reply and for her offer to write to me, which I look forward to. Some of her latter remarks on Amendment No. 242A were rather like dancing on the head of a pin. The arguments she advances seem, if I may say so, rather circular—and is it a good use of parliamentary time to amend a legislative provision from ““involve”” to ““consult”” and then issue guidance to say that ““consult”” actually means ““involve””? I say to her very humbly that the law has to be clear. The man and the woman in the street needs to know to what they are entitled, and the NHS needs to know what it is supposed to be doing: nobody gains by having obscure language. I still think the clause needs to be clearer in the Bill and I have little doubt that we will return to the issue at a later stage, regardless of the letter that the Minister has kindly undertaken to send. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 242A and 242B not moved.]