Health and Social Care Bill

14: Clause 56, page 87, line 3, at end insert— ““( ) On abolition of the Health Protection Agency, the appropriate authority in England will take steps to ensure that any organisation established to assume the Agency's functions (and any others deemed appropriate) will— (a) have a Board with a non-executive Chair and a majority of non-executive directors; (b) be able to undertake and publish independent research and to bid for research funding from any source; and (c) be able to tender for contracts related to its functions.””