My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister—she was succinct but we certainly got the drift of the Government’s arguments. We have had just over an hour’s debate. Ideally, we would have taken this as a separate Bill, as we did in 2019, because these are clearly very complex issues. The heart of it is the tension between the purity of the safe space concept and the statutory duties of a number of officeholders, including senior coroners and the ombudsman. We will not resolve that tonight. The pity of it is that we will move to Report and probably vote on this; I cannot help thinking that there is a need for a proper round-table discussion before that to see whether we can collectively tease out a way forward. Having said that, it has been an excellent debate and I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.
Health and Care Bill
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 9 February 2022.
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Debate on bills on Health and Care Bill.
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