Clause 1
Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill
10:00 am
Hugh Bayley (City of York, Labour)
Perhaps it would help the Committee if I said that we have had a fairly broad, Second Reading-style debate on clause 1, and that the subsequent clauses are pretty narrow, so I shall be a strict Chairman. That is not because of any wish not to debate the issue—my constituency is a railway constituency with a very high incidence of asbestos-related diseases that obviously came from a former carriage works—but because there is a severe shortage of Committee time for private Member’s Bills. As the Chair, I think it my duty to help Members to make progress with their private Member’s Bills in the limited Committee time available. Without wishing to prevent any Member from speaking about the matters in the subsequent clauses, I hope that we will make some good progress.