Promotion of Volunteering Bill

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Mr. Brazier: I shall be most grateful to the Minister for withdrawing the amendment.

Fiona Mactaggart: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Clause 7 ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Question proposed, That the Chairman do report the Bill, as amended, to the House.

Mr. Brazier: I should like to place on record my thanks to you, Mr. Amess, for your hard work in chairing the Committee and to the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor) who chaired an earlier sitting. I particularly thank the Clerk, Mr. Harrison, who has performed his role outstandingly, and the Hansard reporters who have worked so hard while we have shovelled paper at them. I want to thank the Minister for keeping her temper in spite of our several disagreements and, above all, I

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want to thank every member of the Committee who has volunteered to be here—this is our fourth sitting, and some of them took place in very hot weather. It has involved a great deal of hard work and I cannot thank them enough. I very much look forward to seeing the team again on Report.

Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire) (LD): On a point of order, Mr. Amess. I should like to add that since the hon. Member for Canterbury did not give any of us a

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written statement of inherent risk for being on the Committee, and since it has gone on far longer than he promised when we started, he might be hearing from my lawyer.

The Chairman: That was an ingenious point of order.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill, as amended, to be reported.

Committee rose at twelve minutes to Four o'clock.

The following Members attended the Committee:
Amess, Mr. David (Chairman)
Bennett, Andrew
Boswell, Mr.
Brazier, Mr.
Burnham, Andy
Dobson, Mr.
Hoyle, Mr.
Lait, Mrs.
Mactaggart, Fiona
Mallaber, Judy
Mountford, Kali
Öpik, Lembit
Reed, Mr.

 

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Prepared 19 May 2004