Health and Social Care Bill

The Minister thought that I was projecting a doomsday view of corporate governance within clinical commissioning groups. It is not doomsday but a warning that if you give enormous power to professionals who can take advantage financially from their decisions, you need strong corporate governance safeguards. The best safeguard is to have independent appointment of non-execs, who should be in a majority on a board. That is such a well known process and a safeguard in all public bodies. I beg to test the opinion of the House. Division on Amendment 76 Contents 185; Not-Contents 282. Amendment 76 disagreed. Amendments 77 and 78 not moved. Amendment 79 had been withdrawn from the Marshalled List. Amendment 79A Moved by