NHS Redress Bill [HL]

The Minister appears to be saying that where a case is seen as falling outside the scope of the redress scheme and the file is passed to those individuals in the NHSLA who are administering the clinical negligence scheme for trusts, then, all of a sudden, the patient will not necessarily be given an explanation for what may have occurred. I find that idea troubling. It seems to me that all the much vaunted principles of openness and disclosure which the Government tell us will be a feature of the redress scheme suddenly fly out of the window just because the matter concerned is seen as falling a little bit, or perhaps a lot, outside the scope of the redress scheme. I shall be grateful if the Minister can say a little more on that point.