His comments follow the publication of an interim report into out-of-hours GP care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), prompted by Mr Gray's death, which found primary care trusts may be failing to spot patient safety issues because of a lack of scrutiny.
In its six-month interim report, the insurance firm said it had been operating on a "substantially standalone basis" from RBS since 1 July, with independent functions and governance.
The interim report from the Pensions Commission - published last October - said a mixture of higher taxes, more saving and a higher average retirement age was needed to solve the UK's pension crisis.
But an interim report from the official post-mortem examination suggested "there were no marks of injury or bruises on the body except the rope marks on the neck, " Dr Sharif Astori, an official spokesperson, said.
The White House has delivered a much-awaited, interim report card on President Bush's troop surge strategy.
This is an interim report, based on a year-long study of 63 pupils in England, with the final report expected next year, but so far researchers have not found a negative association between using text abbreviations and literacy skills.
The Lords was debating an interim report by a group of peers, chaired by Tory ex-cabinet minister Lord Hunt of Wirral, on "options for allowing members to leave the House of Lords permanently".
Last week, the government-backed Riots, Communities and Victims Panel published its interim report into the causes of the riots and how a repeat of events could be avoided.
Meanwhile, the government-backed Riots, Communities and Victims Panel published its interim report, which found no single cause but that in many areas there was "an overriding sense of despair that people could destroy their own communities".
In its interim report published in April, the commission said that, in the build-up to the crisis, lenders and borrowers took on "excessive and ill-understood risks", and that implicit taxpayer support for the banks encouraged "too much risk-taking".
Some of his figures changed in the interim - he wrote about the Senate bill in January and this week's report includes changes made by the reconciliation package that altered the Senate bill - but overall, Foster's assessment is the same.
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