Health Bill [HL]

I shall also address Amendments 121 and 122 tabled by the noble Earl, Lord Howe. Although I am not surprised that he did so, I compliment the noble Earl on noticing the drafting error in new Section 34T in the published version of the Bill. I am most grateful for his amendments, which seek to correct the error in the definition of "person affected". The word "means" is repeated unnecessarily. I have tabled a government amendment seeking to correct the same drafting error in a slightly different way. This amendment leaves out the word "means" in line 37, instead of leaving out "means" in lines 39 and 45. I believe that that makes the provision clearer, although I remain grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Howe, for bringing this point to our attention. In the circumstances, perhaps he will be content not to press his amendments and agree that mine remedies the mistake. I beg to move.