Parliamentary search - Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 74-EN also published.
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
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Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1221-2 (Link to this contribution) I propose that Clause 51 should stand part of the Bill. It deals with a case in which the Electoral ...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful for that. I will read it very carefully and will have a happy half hour chas...

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Lord Greaves | 693 c1221 (Link to this contribution) The reason I tabled my objection to the Question whether this clause should stand part is that I did...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1220-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe there is any evidence at all and I shall be very interested to see what the Ministe...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1220 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the noble Baroness will accept that we are very committed to evidence-based policy-making....

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1220 (Link to this contribution) I am open to the arguments on either side. I come from a whole-council election tradition, and I und...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1220 (Link to this contribution) Having enjoyed making a Second Reading speech on behalf of my noble friend, I will not make another ...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1218-20 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 69: 69: Clause 37, page 21, line 3, leave out ““non-metropolitan”” The noble ...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) I did not imagine that the Government would agree with me on this, which is all to do with people at...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1216 (Link to this contribution) I hope to provide some clarity following these interesting and important probing amendments, which w...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Out of curiosity, is the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, suggesting that authorities in the same class cou...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1213 (Link to this contribution) We agree with the general thrust of these amendments: the electors of an area should be consulted. T...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1213 (Link to this contribution) We seem to be in some difficulty about how prescriptive we should be. As presently worded, the Bill ...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1212 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister’s comments and from other noble Lords who have taken part. I have to ...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1212 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 63: 63: Clause 33, page 19, line 15, leave out ““such”” and insert ““local ele...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1214 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister and everyone else for their comments. As we go through the Bill, many of us wil...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 65: 65: Clause 33, page 19, line 19, leave out subsections (4) to (6) The nob...

Lord Bruce-Lockhart | 693 c1213 (Link to this contribution) I understand the motivation behind the amendments, but I agree with my noble friend Lord Hanningfiel...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for tabling his amendment and giving us the opportunity for this brief but im...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted if the clauses were pre-empted. My amendments stem from curiosity about why the...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Briefly on the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, one of our problems is that the public al...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 15A: 15A: Clause 3, page 3, line 18, at end insert— ““(c) the potential impact...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1199 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 48: 48: Clause 12, page 9, line 11, leave out ““existing councillors”” and ins...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1200-2 (Link to this contribution) I will take noble Lords through what Clauses 14 and 15 actually do. I hope that will answer the ques...

Lord Bruce-Lockhart | 693 c1202 (Link to this contribution) May I just ask the Minister whether the DCLG has given any thought to the classification of continui...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) In light of the discussions we have had over this section, I am very glad that I disaggregated these...

Lord Bruce-Lockhart | 693 c1200 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, links Clauses 14 and 15, could I just question the transitional ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I am fairly certain that while they are specific to this Act, as I have explained, several of the el...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her explanation. Clause 14 agreed to. Clause 15 agreed to. Clause 16 [Ag...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1202 (Link to this contribution) This is part of the dialogue that we are having, both with local authorities themselves and I presum...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1202 (Link to this contribution) This has turned into an interesting debate. I have just one more question for the Minister. Local au...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1203 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 50: 50: Clause 16, page 11, line 18, leave out ““from time to time”” The nobl...

Lord Tordoff | 693 c1195 (Link to this contribution) In calling Amendment No. 47, I have to point out to the Committee that were it to be agreed to, I sh...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1195 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 47: 47: Clause 12, page 9, line 9, leave out paragraphs (h) to (k) The noble ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1195-6 (Link to this contribution) Before I address that question, I will briefly say something for the record about the effects of the...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1196-7 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend withdraws her amendment, I would like to say one or two things. I do not want...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1197-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has asked some quite detailed questions about the process. It is worth saying that he...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1198 (Link to this contribution) To pursue this point a little further, I am astonished that people think that there is a need for a ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I have listened closely to the noble Lord, who has had a lot of experience on these things. Essentia...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to withdraw the amendment when my noble friend intervened, but it was well worth it...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1210 (Link to this contribution) We have some sympathy and agree that councils should be able to determine their own cycles or arrang...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1210-1 (Link to this contribution) I still think that there is good sense in this amendment. If after due deliberation it is felt that ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful for the Minister’s reply on that. I think that it is essential. I beg leave to w...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1209-10 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 62: 62: Clause 32, page 19, line 10, at end insert— ““( ) A council must not p...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that explanation. Who is the person specified in the direction? Do we know?...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether it will depend on the nature of the direction or whether there will be a deleg...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1207-9 (Link to this contribution) Removing the clauses would take away a very important safeguard of the interests of new authorities ...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1211-2 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Baroness sits down—or even before the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, stands up—perhaps I...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 693 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I see this amendment as being rather more prescriptive than the noble Lord’s interpretation. The Gov...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1211 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend does so, I wonder whether the Government have any comment on a point to which...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1203-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 16 agreed to. Claus...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1204 (Link to this contribution) The clause suggests that the Secretary of State can make any corrections to an order. Does that appl...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1204 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that it is relative. The clause allows the Secretary of State to rectify a mistake in any ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1204 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that reply. Clause 20 agreed to. Clause 21 [Pre-commencement invitations ...

Lord Tordoff | 693 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I understood that Amendment No. 50 was spoken to with Amendment No. 8. It is entirely up to the nobl...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1203 (Link to this contribution) Thank God it is Thursday afternoon. I have inadvertently spoken to the amendment already, again by r...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1204-5 (Link to this contribution) It has been rather a surreal debate this afternoon, because for at least two-thirds of it we have be...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1205-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I can reassure the noble Baroness, because there is really nothing perverse or sinister ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1206 (Link to this contribution) The Minister keeps talking about local authorities up and down the country. Let us be very specific ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 58: 58: Clause 24, page 16, line 19, at end insert— ““(5) Nothing in this chap...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1178-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 26: 26: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause— ““Referendum in case ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1179-80 (Link to this contribution) This takes us a little further—and a little further afield, too. Amendment No. 26 seeks to materiall...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1180 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for those not very helpful or supportive remarks. I hear what she says and I ta...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1180 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 27: 27: Clause 7, page 5, line 34, leave out paragraph (b) and insert— ““(b) s...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1177-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 22: 22: Clause 3, page 3, line 25, at end insert ““or— ““(c) declining the inv...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1178 (Link to this contribution) We do not think that the amendment is necessary. By definition, any invitation can be declined; for ...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness for that answer, which is not as helpful as it might have been. I beg lea...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1181-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 32: 32: Clause 8, page 6, line 6, leave out subsection (2) and insert— ““(2) W...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1181 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 29: 29: Clause 7, page 5, line 40, leave out from ““consult”” to end of line 4...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1182 (Link to this contribution) We support most of these technical amendments. We are not quite certain what, "““the need to secure ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1172-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to Members of the Committee for addressing their amendments in the way that they have....

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister clarify the position on the government amendments? In my own area of Suffolk, in th...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1169-70 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 16: 16: Clause 3, page 3, line 18, at end insert— ““( ) The Secretary of State...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) I have tabled Amendments Nos. 20A and 25 in this group, which both concern consultation, or the lack...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1168-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to say that I have never come across the situation of departments not talking to each...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1169 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that full explanation. I am sure that it will reassure the N...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1177 (Link to this contribution) If I have understood the Minister correctly, it is very helpful that the Secretary of State takes ac...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said, "““such other persons as he considers appropriate””." In discussions on this...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1176 (Link to this contribution) On the point of the noble Baroness, I understand that if anybody feels that they are going to be aff...

Lord Bruce-Lockhart | 693 c1176 (Link to this contribution) Please forgive me for being late. I have come straight from the local government conference in Birmi...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1187 (Link to this contribution) To follow that one up, does that mean that two London boroughs that wanted to get into bed together ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1187 (Link to this contribution) As far as I understand it, the Secretary of State can invite the Boundary Committee to do that, but ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1187 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is wise not to speculate, because we are in some trouble with this Bill. If, as has bee...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1187 (Link to this contribution) If that were the case, and they were able to go to the Boundary Committee—well, I shall have to take...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1188 (Link to this contribution) But that is not what the committee said. I do not understand why we have London boroughs—

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1188 (Link to this contribution) London boroughs are already unitary so the invitation process obviously does not apply to them. The ...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1188 (Link to this contribution) When committees try to draft they produce a camel, so it is said. I think we have started with a cam...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I am wrong. I am sorry; I am confusing the Committee. In fact, it is the general power of the Bounda...

Lord Greaves | 693 c1186-7 (Link to this contribution) Reluctant as I am to interfere in London in any sense, I have two points. First, London may think th...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I agree, because I had read the provisions entirely in association with the previous clause. If that...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1183 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the noble Lord has understood the implications; neither do I. I will have to take...

Lord Hanningfield | 693 c1183 (Link to this contribution) I do not understand. If local authorities can create parish councils, even as part of any restructur...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1182 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord asked about the term ““convenient””. There might have been an opportunity for us to d...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1182 (Link to this contribution) Everyone in the Committee is sensitive to the political significance of boundary changes. Parties wi...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1184-5 (Link to this contribution) This important group of amendments concerns London’s relationship with the restructuring proposed in...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1184 (Link to this contribution) I tabled Amendment No. 42 in this group, as the noble Baroness said. I share most of her concerns ab...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1183-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 35: 35: Clause 8, page 6, line 30, at end insert— ““(e) an amalgamation of Lon...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1183 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 33 and 34: 33: Clause 8, page 6, line 11, leave out ““subsection (2)”” and i...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1186 (Link to this contribution) It is not really a point of detail, but I fear that I still find myself unclear on what proposals ar...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1186 (Link to this contribution) In a way, it would have been helpful if we had had a stand part debate on the clauses concerned, in ...

Lord Tordoff | 693 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I know that I am not allowed to join in the debate, but as a recent elector in Enfield, I found what...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn,

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1195 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 45 and 46: 45: Clause 12, page 8, line 44, after ““authority”” insert ““or p...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1193 (Link to this contribution) Given my experience in local government, I would appreciate written briefing from the Minister on an...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) I will address the amendment and speak briefly to Clause 12 stand part in order to explain some of t...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1194 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time it is a pleasure to have my noble friend on the Bench; his personal history i...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if the Minister can help me. My experience of amalgamation comes from the London Government...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 36 and 37: 36: Clause 8, page 6, line 30, at end insert— ““(4A) Where the Bo...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1191 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 43: 43: Clause 11, page 8, line 19, leave out paragraph (c) The noble Barones...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 38 to 40: 38: Clause 10, page 7, line 25, leave out ““8”” and insert ““8(2)”...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) I was not arguing about any of that. I was drawing attention to the fact that I am not sure what sub...

Lord Graham of Edmonton | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said that she intends to untangle it. A hiatus has been revealed and she has attemp...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Those clauses relate to the structural changes—no, they do not. I will have to write to the noble Ba...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Clauses 11 to 19, under ““Implementation of changes””, after the heading ““Boundary change””. It is ...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Are the powers in Clauses 11 to 19, under the heading ““Implementation of changes””—we will discuss ...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1188-9 (Link to this contribution) If the Committee will indulge me, I have had some help—the cavalry have arrived—and I can explain wh...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.

Lord Elton | 693 c1215 (Link to this contribution) I have to tell the Committee that if it agrees to the amendment, I shall be unable to call Amendment...

Baroness Scott of Needham Market | 693 c1196 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I would not want to pre-empt the excitement in Part 3 next week...

Baroness Hamwee | 693 c1199 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend’s questions have been helpful in disaggregating quite a package. In this clause, I f...

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Baroness Hanham | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) We need to untangle this because we are all talking at cross-purposes. I may have completely misunde...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1190 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was both right and wrong. They apply to both parts of the Bill, but the purpose of writi...

Baroness Andrews | 693 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Which clauses?

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