Clause 7 - Short title, commencement and effect
Promotion of Volunteering Bill
3:45 pm
Mr Julian Brazier (Shadow Minister, International Affairs; Canterbury, Conservative)
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
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.