Health Bill [HL]

My Lords, there may be a small question about what the status of such a person would be in terms of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Human Rights Act is domestic legislation and there is, ultimately, the possibility of going to the court in Strasbourg. I am not sure that this would necessarily be sufficient. I may be wrong about this—I am not sure—but I raise the question whether this would be sufficient to make the provider a public authority within the meaning of the Convention on Human Rights, which is a different document in some substance from the Human Rights Act.