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Point of Order: Topical Debate — Work and Skills (23 Oct 2008) has video

Oliver Heald: ..., the hon. Member for Rochdale (Paul Rowen), to the Conservative policy of strengthening and increasing the number of apprenticeships. We started doing that in government, as it was Lord David Hunt who came up with modern apprenticeships schemes as a way of improving young people's education. It is something on which the Government, to give them their due, have built, but we would like to...

Orders of the Day: Legal Services Bill [Lords] (4 Jun 2007)

Oliver Heald: ...a strong supporter of the measure and, especially, moves to tackle complaints involving solicitors more effectively. I join the Minister in paying tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend Lord Hunt of Wirral, who chaired the Joint Committee expertly. The Committee gave the Bill effective pre-legislative scrutiny over a short time scale. My hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate...

Orders of the Day: Clause 16 — Extent (17 Jul 2006)

Oliver Heald: ...I should also thank the usual channels for ensuring that we kept in order and got through what we had to get through in Committee. We are pleased with the amendment obtained by my noble Friend Lord Hunt which adds clause 2 to the Bill. It allows offers of treatment, rehabilitation and apologies without admissions of liability. That builds on the principles that the Association of British...

Public Bill Committee: Compensation Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (22 Jun 2006)

Oliver Heald: ...amendment No. 6, in page 1, line 13, after ‘offer', insert ‘, or provision,'. This clause was added in the other place as a result of the efforts of my right hon. and noble Friend Lord Hunt. It is an important step forward in allowing an offer of access to rehabilitation to be made without its being an admission of negligence, and it is in keeping with the thinking of insurers...

Public Bill Committee: Compensation Bill [Lords] (20 Jun 2006)

Oliver Heald: .... We will want to test whether the use of the expression “particular steps” in clause 1 might change the law, as some have suggested. I pay tribute to my right hon. and noble FriendLord Hunt for bringing forward clause 2 in the other place, but we will want to test whether “an offer of treatment”—the wording in the clause—includes the provision of such...

Orders of the Day: Compensation Bill [Lords] (8 Jun 2006)

Oliver Heald: We are all grateful to the Minister for setting out the details of the Bill and it aims. It was the subject of considerable scrutiny in the other place, and I pay tribute to Lord Hunt of Wirral, who made some important improvements to it through his constructive approach. I believe that his research team, under Andrew Parker, has done a great deal of work to help with the process. We welcome...

Orders of the Day: Compensation Bill [Lords] (8 Jun 2006)

Oliver Heald: ...do not go that far. We believe that there is a case for clause 1, and that it is important to get the wording right. We have some comments to make about that in due course. As my noble Friend Lord Hunt made clear in the other place, the courts will have to build up their case law on the basis of the Bill if it is passed. I agree with the Minister that that is unlikely to create the huge...

Points of Order (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: Further to my point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have decided that the House must go ahead immediately with the Hunting Bill, but can you give any guidance for the future on the amount of time that the Government should allow hon. Members when amendments in lieu are tabled? Twenty-five minutes are not enough. Although I fully understand and accept your decision and the reasons for it, some...

Business of the House (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...sort of nonsense? Finally, a fox managed to walk into Portcullis House yesterday—[Interruption.] Or possibly ran. In any event, does the Leader of the House have any plans for the systematic hunting of foxes in Portcullis House?

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...Bill deals with the needs of some of our most vulnerable children. I do not agree with some aspects of those measures, but I have no doubt that their subject matter is far more important than hunting.

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...has existed on other occasions does not exist here. The contention that the Parliament Act can be used because the other place is clearly engaged in blocking the Bill also needs to be examined. The Hunting Bill that was introduced in the 2000–01 Session proposed three options: a ban, self-regulation and a statutory hunt licensing authority. This House voted for a ban; the other place...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...of the European convention on human rights. Other important issues to be dealt with are the breadth of the offence created and the nature of the intent required to commit the offence of hunting. Whatever side of the argument we are on, not many of us would want to pass a Bill that would result in tourists being charged with hunting just because they came upon a hunt one day. We should have...

Business of the House (13 Sep 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...he recall that last Thursday I asked for extra time to be allowed so that hon. Members on both sides of the House could put forward motions under section 2 of the Parliament Act to accompany the Hunting Bill to the other place? It is most unsatisfactory that we have a highly draconian procedural motion on the Order Paper today that will not only guillotine the business of this House, but...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...of the House will realise—as was apparent when he announced the business—that there are differing emotions in all parts of the House and in the country about his announcement on the Hunting Bill, but may I press him on a number of matters? Surely, a Bill of that kind needs more than one day's consideration—[Hon. Members: "Hear, hear"]. Will he think again about the time...

Points of Order (13 May 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...the Order Paper, yet this is a matter of great importance. I understand that it might be a bit embarrassing for the Government, because 180 out of 250 collection centres for fallen stock will be at hunt kennels. Would you be prepared to investigate how it is that this discourtesy to the House has occurred?

Public Bill Committee: Civil Contingencies Bill: Clause 19 - Power to make emergency regulations (3 Feb 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: I do not know whether my hon. Friend heard the sotto voce intervention from the other side that there is a Minister for the Horse: the former First Minister of Wales, who deals with hunting.

Civil Contingencies Bill (19 Jan 2004)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...we have also seen new incidents of other kinds of emergency, such as flooding and drought, surely a Civil Contingencies Bill should have been higher legislative priority than measures on banning hunting and trimming back leylandii hedges. Apart from the legal issues on which we must properly probe the Government, my main concern about the present state of the Bill is simply that its...

Complementary Medicines (17 Jul 2002)

Mr Oliver Heald: That is the point that my hon. Friend made very tellingly. There are some welcome signs. As I mentioned earlier, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath has called for a further round of discussions on the traditional herbal medicinal products directive, I understand that the Medicines Control Agency consultation has been extended and we hear that the Health Food Manufacturers Association is to meet the...

Complementary Medicines (17 Jul 2002)

Mr Oliver Heald: Does my hon. Friend take some heart from the fact that, about a week after the discussion in European Standing Committee C during which he made that last point, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the health Minister who deals with such issues, called for a further round of discussions and put back the consultation period on the traditional herbal medicinal products directive until the end of this month?

Public Bill Committee: NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill: Clause 2 - Primary Care Trusts (27 Nov 2001)

Mr Oliver Heald: ...that is what the hon. Gentleman said. I was slightly nonplussed when I was told that he had said something else. I wondered if I had misheard him. It is foolish to describe someone such as David Hunt, professor of health, policy and management at Durham university, or Kieran Walsh of Birmingham university's health service management centre and a senior research fellow as if they were...