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Procurement Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 28 November 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills on Procurement Bill [HL].

I turn finally to my noble friend Lord Maude, who brought in the importance of social enterprises in the health area, which I was extremely keen to hear about and would like to discuss with him further. It seemed to me, when reflecting on what he said, that the greater flexibility to award contracts—which was behind the Health and Social Care Act and the PSR regulations that were being brought forward—was an argument in favour of the approach that we have set out and for some different arrangements in the NHS. I find myself in the slightly awkward position of trying to defend these different arrangements for the NHS because I am worried about the implications for things similar to those that my noble friend raised.

I think that I have dealt with all these comments. I will reflect further on Amendment 34. It is a bit difficult not to move it—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
825 c1595 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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