National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013

My Lords, I would like to reassure the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, that I will be speaking in...

I am most grateful to my noble friend for his enormously helpful speech tonight.

There is plenty more to come.

I am delighted and I look forward to making further interventions. My noble friend and I very muc...

I am not prepared to second-guess the OFT before it has done its inquiry into this set of arrange...

That is a separate issue.

It is not a separate issue because there is considerable overlap between those who are providing ...

I am afraid I cannot resist interrupting. Does the noble Lord’s pride in the social care market e...

I do not think anybody in the private nursing home and residential care market has achieved the d...

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If we are to have a debate about whether one sector is better than another, we ought to see the o...

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Before we all get too excited, let us look at some of these issues. In my view, these regulations...

I would simply like to ask the noble Lord, Lord Warner, whether he has any interests in private s...

If the noble Baroness was listening, I think I declared my registered interests at the beginning ...

My Lords, the noble Lord and I served together in the Department of Health many years ago, and he...

I am delighted to be able to follow the noble Lord, Lord Owen. He puts his finger on it. It is ha...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of Help the Hospices, and in a moment or two I shall put...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly because I am faced with a major dilemma, not least because of the...

My Lords, it is for me a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Walton of Detchant He mad...

My Lords, I do not understand that. Clearly, if a CCG decides that a potential contract meets the...

In this particular set of regulations we are giving statutory underpinning to Monitor in a way th...

We have had a very thorough and memorable debate on this important subject, and that is not a bad...

Can the noble Lord say what sort of clause he proposes instead of Clause 5 that would be consiste...

I am in favour of scrapping all these regulations completely and simply voting them down tonight....

My Lords, I begin my comments by reminding the House that I am the current president of the BMA a...

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest. My interests are in the Lords’ Register, but I partic...

If I may, I point out to the noble Baroness that competition of course exists in all parts of our...

My Lords, we could have a whole debate on profit. Every person who sells their talents and does w...

I am sorry to interrupt at this time of night, but I am conscious of the fact that the noble Baro...

My Lords, of course I accept that. We accept that in the NHS, do we not? You have only to look at...

My Lords, the hour is late and many of us are extremely keen to hear from the Minister. He took a...

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Minister!

My Lords, many noble friends have already addressed the main issues of the debate and I do not in...

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Minister!

Could I ask the Minister just two questions on behalf of patients? I had a postcard today from so...

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Minister!

My Lords, I will be brief. I have sat through this debate patiently and I understand the impatien...

My Lords, we are debating a set of regulations on which, as we have heard this evening, a great d...

My Lords, we have had a long debate and I know that the House will want to come to a decision ver...