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House of Commons

Thursday 31 March 2011

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Health and Social Care Bill

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Orders of the

Committee [8 February and 8 March].

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

656

Clause  234,  page  196,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

An information standard under subsection (1) must state the need for explicit

patient consent for the disclosure of patient information, in accordance with the

common law duty of confidentiality, unless the information has been anonymised

or pseudonymised.’.

Mr Simon Burns

672

Clause  234,  page   196,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘( )	any person (other than a public body) who provides health services, or

adult social care in England, to which the information standard relates

pursuant to arrangements made with a public body exercising functions

in connection with the provision of such services or care.’.

Mr Simon Burns

673

Clause  234,  page   197,  line  8,  after ‘section’ insert ‘7A or’.

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Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

657

Clause  235,  page  197,  line  19,  at end insert ‘including healthcare professionals and

have regard to their advice’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

658

Clause  237,  page  197,  line  34,  leave out subsections (b), (c) and (d).

Mr Simon Burns

674

Clause  238,  page   198,  line  37,  after ‘section’ insert ‘7A or’.

Mr Simon Burns

675

Clause  238,  page   198,  line  43,  at end insert—

‘( )	A direction under subsection (1) may require the Information Centre to

disseminate information (other than by publishing it) only if the Centre is

authorised to do so by section 243 or authorised or required to do so by or under

any other provision of this or any other Act.’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

659

Clause  238,  page  198,  line  43,  at end add—

‘(7)	The powers under this section refer exclusively to data which has been

anonymised or pseudonymised or for which explicit consent for its use for these

specified purposes has been obtained in accordance with the common law duty of

confidentiality.’.

Mr Simon Burns

676

Clause  239,  page   199,  line  9,  at end insert—

‘( )	A request under subsection (1) may request the Information Centre to disseminate

information (other than by publishing it) only if the Centre is authorised to do so

by section 243 or authorised or required to do so by or under any other provision

of this or any other Act.’.

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Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

660

Clause  239,  page  199,  line  19,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

Nothing in this section shall have the effect of rendering lawful any exchange of

information currently prohibited under current law.’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

663

Clause  239,  page  199,  line  23,  leave out subsection (6).

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

661

Clause  239,  page  199,  line  25,  at end insert ‘except that all such requests must be in

accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

662

Clause  239,  page  199,  line  41,  leave out paragraph (d).

Mr Simon Burns

677

Clause  239,  page   199,  line  42,  leave out ‘provided for individuals’.

Mr Simon Burns

678

Clause  241,  page  200,  line  31,  leave out ‘must’ and insert ‘may’.

Mr Simon Burns

679

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  34,  leave out ‘a health or social care body’ and insert

‘any person mentioned in subsection (1A)’.

Mr Simon Burns

680

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  38,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

Those persons are—

(a)	a health or social care body;

(b)	any person (other than a public body) who provides health services, or

adult social care in England, pursuant to arrangements made with a

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public body exercising functions in connection with the provision of such

services or care.’.

Mr Simon Burns

681

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  39,  leave out ‘A health or social care body must comply

with’.

Mr Simon Burns

682

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  40,  after ‘(1)(a)’ insert ‘must be complied with’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

652

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  41,  leave out ‘such period’ and insert ‘a reasonable

amount of time’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

651

Clause  242,  page  200,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The powers under this section refer exclusively to data which has been

anonymised or pseudonymised or for which explicit consent for its use for these

specified purposes has been obtained in accordance with the common law duty of

confidentiality.’.

Mr Simon Burns

683

Clause  242,  page  201,  line  3,  leave out ‘health or social care bodies and other’.

Mr Simon Burns

684

Clause  242,  page  201,  line  8,  leave out ‘health or social care body’ and insert

‘person mentioned in subsection (1A)’.

Mr Simon Burns

685

Clause  242,  page  201,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘( )	The provision of information under this section—

(a)	does not breach any obligation of confidence owed by the person

providing it, but

(b)	is subject to any express restriction on disclosure imposed by or under

another Act (other than any restriction which allows disclosure if

authorised by or under an Act).’.

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Mr Simon Burns

686

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  15,  leave out ‘—’ and insert ‘the information falls

within subsection (1A); and, subject to the following provisions of this section, if the

information falls within that subsection, the Centre must not publish it.

(1A)	Information falls within this subsection if—’.

Mr Simon Burns

687

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  16,  leave out ‘provider’ and insert ‘relevant person’.

Mr Simon Burns

688

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  17,  leave out ‘provider’ and insert ‘relevant person’.

Mr Simon Burns

689

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  19,  leave out ‘provider’ and insert ‘relevant person’.

Mr Simon Burns

690

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  22,  leave out ‘provider’ and insert ‘relevant person’.

Mr Simon Burns

691

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  23,  at end insert—

‘(ba)

the Centre considers that—

(i)	the information fails to meet the information standards published

under section 234 (so far as they are applicable), and

(ii)	it would not be in the public interest to publish the information,

or’.

Emily Thornberry

Derek Twigg

Liz Kendall

653

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  24,  leave out paragraph (c).

Mr Simon Burns

692

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  26,  leave out subsection (2).

Mr Simon Burns

693

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  27,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

A direction under section 238 may provide that the obligation to publish imposed

by subsection (1) applies to information falling within subsection (1A)(a).’.

Mr Simon Burns

694

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  27,  at end insert—

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‘(2B)

The Information Centre may disseminate to any such persons and in such manner

as it considers appropriate any information which it collects pursuant to a

direction under section 238 or a request under section 239 and which falls within

subsection (2C).

(2C)	Information falls within this subsection if—

(a)	the information is required to be published under this section,

(b)	the information is in a form which identifies any relevant person to whom

the information relates or enables the identity of such a relevant person

to be ascertained and the Centre, after taking into account the public

interest as well as the interests of the relevant person, considers that it is

appropriate for the information to be disseminated, or

(c)	the Centre is prohibited from publishing the information only by virtue

of it falling within subsection (1A)(ba) and the Centre considers it would

be in the public interest for the information to be disseminated.

(2D)	In the case of a direction under section 238 or a mandatory request under section

239 the power in subsection (2B) is subject to the requirements of the direction

or mandatory request.

(2E)	Nothing in this section prevents the Information Centre from disseminating

information (otherwise than by publishing it) pursuant to the exercise of any

function conferred by or under any other provision of this or any other Act.’.

Mr Simon Burns

695

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  28,  leave out subsection (3) and insert—

‘( )	Where the Information Centre publishes information which it collects pursuant to

a direction under section 238 or a mandatory request under section 239 in

accordance with the requirements of the direction or the mandatory request, it

may also publish the information in such other form and such other manner, and

at such other intervals, as it considers appropriate.’.

Mr Simon Burns

696

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  36,  leave out ‘must’ and insert ‘may’.

Mr Simon Burns

697

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  38,  leave out paragraph (b).

Mr Simon Burns

698

Clause  243,  page  201,  line  45,  at end insert—

‘( )	In this section “relevant person” means—

(a)	any person who provides health care or adult social care, or

(b)	any body corporate not falling within paragraph (a).’.

Mr Simon Burns

699

Clause  245,  page  202,  line  24,  leave out from beginning to ‘about’ in line 26 and

insert ‘The Secretary of State must, at least once in any review period, exercise the power

under subsection (1)(b) by requesting the Information Centre to give the Secretary of State

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advice’.

Mr Simon Burns

700

Clause  245,  page  202,  line  28,  at end insert—

‘( )	For the purposes of subsection (3) a review period is—

(a)	the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which this section comes

into force, and

(b)	each subsequent period of 3 years.’.

Mr Simon Burns

701

Clause  245,  page  202,  line  32,  at end insert—

‘( )	A person (other than a public body) who provides health services, or adult social

care in England, pursuant to arrangements made with a public body exercising

functions in connection with the provision of such services or care must, in

providing those services or that care, have regard to any advice or guidance given

to the person under this section.’.

Mr Simon Burns

702

Clause  254,  page  205,  line  18,  leave out ‘functions’ and insert ‘of the information

functions of any health or social care body’.

Mr Simon Burns

703

Clause  254,  page  205,  leave out lines 19 and 20.

Mr Simon Burns

704

Schedule  18,  page  337,  line  34,  at end insert—

‘National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2969)

In Part 1 of the Schedule to the National Assembly for Wales

(Disqualification) Order 2010 (bodies of which the members are disqualified),

at the appropriate place insert—

“Health and Social Care Information Centre;”.’.

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