Let me clarify a remark that the Secretary of State just made to my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame M. Morris). The Secretary of State said that there would be no instances where NHS properties might be transferred to private companies, but he will know that under schedule 23 there is provision for precisely that. Such companies are described there as a ““qualifying company””. A licence holder could be a private company to which NHS material—even staff—and other liabilities might be transferred. Is that not right?
Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 3)
Proceeding contribution from
Owen Smith
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 September 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Health and Social Care Bill (Programme) (No. 3).
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