Health and Social Care Bill

Lord Campbell-Savours Excerpts

Monday 12th March 2012 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

I am grateful to my noble friend because I do not believe that there were any. The Opposition sometimes point to the risk register relating to the third runway at Heathrow, but the key difference with that was that it was to do with policy implementation rather than policy formulation. Once you know what you want to do, there are risks associated with rolling a policy out. It is a very different matter when civil servants wish to have safe space to think the unthinkable and then advise Ministers.

[Lord Campbell-Savours]

Does the Minister intend to delay the Third Reading of the Bill?

[Earl Howe]

We have a Motion before us in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Owen. That question will be addressed then.