division_name: Care Standards Bill [H.L.]
motion: <p pid="a.674.0/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 15:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.674.0/2" pwmotiontext="moved">Page 5, line 25, at end insert--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.674.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">("(8) "Excepted services" means the provision of services referred to in subsections (7)(a) and (b).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.674.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(9) The Commission shall have the general duty of securing improvements in the quality of excepted services in independent hospitals (as defined in section 2) and shall carry out this duty through the contracting of inspections with the Commission for Health Improvement ("CHI") established by the Health Act 1999.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.674.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(10) For the purposes of subsection (9) above the Commission shall ensure that the relevant independent hospital pays the full economic costs of any inspection.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.674.0/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(11) The standards applied by CHI on any such inspection shall be those which it applies in any comparable inspection of a health service hospital.").</p>
  
  <p pid="a.684.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 15) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.684.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 162; Not-Contents, 132.</p>