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  Health and Social Care Bill - Clinical Commissioning Group Members' Interests - Eligibility to Partipate in Decision Making
  
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  @ MP voted aye to prevent members of Clinical Commissioning Groups with a declarable interest in a provider of services from taking part in discussions or decisions in relation to arrangements with that provider.
  @ MP voted no against preventing members of Clinical Commissioning Groups with a declarable interest in a provider of services from taking part in discussions or decisions in relation to arrangements with that provider.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against preventing members of Clinical Commissioning Groups with a declarable interest in a provider of services from taking part in discussions or decisions in relation to arrangements with that provider. 
  
  
  MPs were considering the Health and Social Care Bill[1]. The motion which was the subject of this division[2][3] was:
  
  :That amendment (a) to Lords amendment 31 be made.
  
  Amendment (a) to Lords amendment 31 stated:
  
  :Line  27,  [Inserted section (4), fourth line] at end insertâ
  :â(4A)    
  :Each clinical commissioning group must make arrangements to ensure that no person mentioned in subsection (1) shall be permitted to take part in any discussion of or decision-making process concerning any arrangement with a provider of services with whom that person has an interest declarable under subsection(3)
  
  Lords amendment 31 itsself sought to insert a new clause into the Bill stating:
  
  : 14NA Registers of interests and management of conflicts of interest
   	
  
  :(1)  Each clinical commissioning group must maintain one or more registers of the interests ofâ
   	
  ::(a) the members of the group,
  ::(b) the members of its governing body,
  ::(c) the members of its committees or sub-committees or of committees or sub-committees of its governing body, and
  ::(d) its employees.
   	
  
  :(2) Each clinical commissioning group must publish the registers maintained under subsection (1) or make arrangements to ensure that members of the public have access to the registers on request.
   	
  :(3) Each clinical commissioning group must make arrangements to ensureâ
   	
  ::(a) that a person mentioned in subsection (1) declares any conflict or potential conflict of interest that the person has in relation to a decision to be made in the exercise of the commissioning functions of the group,
  
  ::(b) that any such declaration is made as soon as practicable after the person becomes aware of the conflict or potential conflict and, in any event, within 28 days, and
   	
  
  ::(c) that any such declaration is included in the registers maintained under subsection (1).
   	
  
  :(4) Each clinical commissioning group must make arrangements for managing conflicts and potential conflicts of interest in such a way as to ensure that they do not, and do not appear to, affect the integrity of the groupâs decision-making processes.
   	
  
  :(5) The Board must publish guidance for clinical commissioning groups on the discharge of their functions under this section.
   	
  
  :(6) Each clinical commissioning group must have regard to guidance published under subsection (5).
   	
  
  :(7) For the purposes of this section, the commissioning functions of a clinical commissioning group are the functions of the group in arranging for the provision of services as part of the health service."
  
  The new clause would have been added near [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0092/lbill_2010-20120092_en_5.htm#pt1-pb4-l1g23 clause 23] of the Bill[4].
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/healthandsocialcare.html Parliament's webpage on the Health and Social Care Bill] (Now the Health and Social Care Act 2012)
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0321/12321.1-4.html Lords Amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill - published on the 19th of March 2012]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0321/amend/pbc3212003m.4149-4153.html Amendments and motions for consideration of the Health and Social Care Bill 
  on the 20th of March 2012[
  * [4] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0092/lbill_2010-20120092_en_1.htm Bill as at 12 September 2011 - the version which the amendments relate to]
  
  
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