Health Bill [HL]

The noble Lord is absolutely right and I thank him for his intervention. I repeat that what is decided in the ivory towers of Richmond House is not always what filters through. I have said it many times on issues of management in the NHS. You set up a great scheme and do not realise what the lower echelons do with it. I am not blaming the Minister; I guess I am blaming the system. I think that it was done so that the Government appeared tough and pleased the likes of the Daily Express, the Daily Mail and the Sun. This is a matter of human rights. I thought we were a country that always cared passionately about human rights. I am not so sure whether we have adhered to that in recent years. I look forward to the review but give due warning that I shall probably bring back my amendments on Report. In the mean time I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 130 withdrawn.