Craig Whittaker has refused to sign Early Day Motion 1188. EDM 1188 asks for the annullment of the ‘new’ regulations (SI 2013/500) under Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act – the ones that provide a stealth route to privatising the NHS. The advice of David Lock, a Queen’s Counsel employed by campaigning organisation 38 Degrees, is that the new regulations (the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013),
“are likely to have the effect of both permitting and promoting the transfer of NHS services to private sector.”