Health and Social Care Act 2012

Lord Campbell-Savours Excerpts

Wednesday 25th April 2012 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, the plan is to conduct the post-legislative scrutiny three years from Royal Assent, so it will no doubt fall immediately prior to what one assumes will be the date of the next general election.

[Lord Campbell-Savours]

By whom is this post-legislative scrutiny on a five-year basis being conducted?

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, it will be conducted by the Health Select Committee of another place. The process is that the Department of Health will submit a memorandum to the Health Select Committee and that memorandum will include a preliminary assessment of how the Act has worked out in practice relative to the objectives and benchmarks identified during the passage of the Bill.