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Talks on a new pay system for all non-medical national health service staff throughout the United Kingdom have also been concluded and the Executive is fully involved in UK talks on a new general medical service contract for general practitioners.
For the moment, the point to bear in mind is that a business or industry can be excluded in its entirety only for exceptional and compelling reasons of public policy, as set out in paragraph 7 of schedule 3 to the Competition Act 1998.
Will he confirm to the chamber that he will not accept any new funding formula for GPs under the proposed new contracts that will mean that they will receive less funding instead of the expected increase?
It is important that we tie that up. We need the new order for the new Parliament. The timetable needs to be adjusted to take account of that—if the rest of the committee agrees.
We will certainly refer the paper to the new committee. We have previously indicated that the present committee would prefer to give the new committee a steer.