We thought that there was no point in having legal rights in the bill if they could not be enforced, and we thought that making the rights legally enforceable would create more problems than it would solve and would create the doleful prospect of a lawyer at every bedside—doleful, that is, for everyone apart from the lawyers, who I am sure would welcome the extra work.However, after something of a comprehensive retreat on the part of the cabinet secretary, the bill was transformed beyond recognition at stage 2.