Clause 62 - Commencement
Human Tissue Bill
2:45 pm
Ms Rosie Winterton (Minister of State, Department of Health; Doncaster Central, Labour)
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Adams and you, Mr. Hurst, for your understanding and wise chairmanship. I also thank the Clerk and the other officials who presided over the Committee with such efficiency, understanding and co-operation.
I particularly thank the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman), who has brought his own expertise and incisiveness to the Committee. I know that he feels that certain hon. Members have sometimes brought darkness over him, but he has only ever enlightened us.
I also thank my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, North (Joan Ryan) for her support as the Government Whip. She has been exemplary and has kept our proceedings well under control, as I always knew she would. My hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Jim Knight) has done a marvellous job as my Parliamentary Private Secretary, which is nothing less than we would expect.
I commend Labour Members on the Committee on their efforts and interventions and on their enthusiasm and commitment.
I thank my officials for their hard work. They have shown a good understanding of the needs of all hon. Members and have tried to give assistance where they could.
I also thank Opposition Members for their constructive opposition; it is a triumph of consensus that there have been no Divisions. The Committee has been overwhelmed by expertise on both sides, which has greatly helped our deliberations. I have been astonished at times by the way in which some Opposition Members have thrown caution and their reputations to the wind by revealing the skeletons in their cupboards.