Clause 2 - Health functions
Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Mr Patrick Mercer (Shadow Minister (Homeland Security), Home, Constitutional & Legal Affairs; Newark, Conservative)
I rise to speak to amendment No. 4, so clearly outlined by the hon. Member for
Sutton and Cheam. The amendment would make clause 2(1)(b) read as follows:
''the prevention of the spread of infection disease, including education and promotion''.
That is incredibly important. The terrorist attacks that have been perpetrated against this country—mercifully unsuccessful so far, owing to the work of our outstanding security services and police forces—have all been relatively conventional. I think of the attempt about six weeks ago to use 1.5 tonnes of fertiliser to make relatively conventional bombs in west London. In January last year—
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.