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Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill: Clause 1 (11 Jun 2009)

Tim Boswell: ...I grew up in was a farm house. It was nothing very grand; indeed, it had previously been used to store onions. It was called Bull’s lodge. Bull was in fact Boleyn, as in Anne Boleyn. It was a small hunting box that had been owned by Sir Thomas Boleyn. It was next to New hall, which happened to be one of Henry VIII’s palaces. Indeed, we found evidence that he and Anne had been...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 7 — Participation in work-focused interviews (9 Jan 2007)

Tim Boswell: ...off as if the easiest and simplest thing to do is park them in the support group on a reasonable benefit but with no expectation of change. My hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) spoke movingly about the matter earlier when he reminded everyone that we are not writing people off. Options and facilities—perhaps new technology—may come along and enable people...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Assessment of limited capability for work (9 Jan 2007)

Tim Boswell: ...(Danny Alexander) introduced it and the substantial speech, which included important additional matter, in support of the new clause from my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). It is also a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry). We have often spoken together on disability issues and, although we come from different political traditions, we...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 16 (31 Oct 2006)

Tim Boswell: ...amendment is tabled in a certain spirit, and we are anxious to make progress. There is no essential difficulty with the clause, so I shall leave my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) to discuss disregards in relation to a later amendment.

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 12 (26 Oct 2006)

Tim Boswell: ...into a King Charles’s head. Every time I get up to speak, I say that there will need to be support. If I flag in my task, I suspect my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) or, indeed, the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey would get up to make my point for me. We need to keep saying again and again: it is not reasonable for people to go...

Disabled People (4 May 2006)

Tim Boswell: ..., that although we have made progress there is still a great deal more to do. I thank the Minister for setting the tone of the debate. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), who made his first appearance at the Opposition Dispatch Box to make a full speech, for his kind personal remarks about both my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman) and...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Capacity Bill: Clause 4 - Best interests (19 Oct 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...members of the Committee. It was right to discuss it in Committee and we will discuss it at a later stage, too. It is a real issue. I draw a slightly gauche analogy with the discussion about fox hunting and whether something is related to the welfare of the fox. Some do not feel that the fox's being put to death serves its welfare. I do not wish to extend that issue, but there are real...

Sex Abuse Cases (16 Oct 2002)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...for paedophilia, or would not wish persons to be convicted of sex offences that they have committed. However, the process gives rise to concern. I am worried about the prevailing climate of a witch hunt, because it is the nature of witch hunts, from Salem onwards, to depress people's critical judgment. Such hunts allow conclusions to be reached that are prejudicial and that have, in many...