In Committee, Ministers pressed for an early conclusion of the Committee stage, telling us repeatedly that they had to have the Bill enacted and on the statute book by Easter. He said that two of the candidates for the Conservative leadership, including the successful candidate who is now the Prime Minister, were committed to the Bill. On Second Reading, the Secretary of State for Education and Science told the House: "The Bill contains the agreed policy of this Government". It went into Standing Committee before Christmas and came out on 5 February-two and a half months ago. The Second Reading of the Bill took place on 27 November. It relates to the Government's conduct regarding the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Bill.
Speaker, of which I have given notice to you and to the Secretary of State for Education and Science. How does he justify the fact that he has appointed a majority of business men to those trusts and that the largest business interest is property development? Although managers will be safe from action by us after the next election, does the Secretary of State accept that we shall replace those people who were appointed as members of trust boards and health authorities with people who live in the area, who use the health service and who are committed to restoring it as a public service? However, the Secretary of State's claims about the accountability of these trusts would be more credible had he not stuffed their boards with people who know little about the national health service and who represent no one in the local community. I am also delighted to take this opportunity to reassure all national health service managers that there will be no problem over renewing the contracts of those managers who serve the next Labour Government as loyally as they have served this Government. There was nothing nasty about the repudiation and I fully associate myself with it.
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