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Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Wednesday 9th June 2010

(13 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I would indeed. I expect those representations to be vigorous and forthright and I look forward to receiving them.

Hugh Bayley Portrait Hugh Bayley (York Central) (Lab)
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Many public bodies, such as the RDAs the Minister mentioned, but also the Bank of England, the BBC, the Judicial Appointments Commission and parliamentary boundary commissions, are independent of Government precisely because they have to be independent of Government. Will the Minister give the House a commitment that this will not just be a centralising exercise whereby bodies that ought to be independent are taken under direct control by Ministers?

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