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  • Health and Care Bill, Lords Amendments, 30th March 2022

Philippa: It’s really just to thank the government for accepting this amendment. I mean, I raised this in second reading. I can see him smiling at how many times we’ve talked about this in committee, and having been on the pre legislative committee, it is critical that the safe space is safe.

Systems make errors. Or don’t prevent errors, so we need people to be candid. So I really just want to pay tribute that the government have accepted this because this does allowed HSSIB to have a decent start and a decent chance.

Minister for Health: Well, I’m, I’m grateful to the honourable lady, not just for her comments then, but also for her work on this agenda and on HSSIB through over many years, in fact, and various incarnations of this piece of legislation.

And she could, she has a right to gently tweak my tail. I could have listened to her in committee and got here faster, but as she will know, occasionally it does take a little time in government to be able to move to the compromise that often we all seek.