Mental Health (Discrimination) (No. 2) Bill – in the House of Commons at 2:28 pm on 30 November 2012.
Peter Aldous
Conservative, Waveney
2:29,
30 November 2012
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
My hon. Friend Charlie Elphicke, on whose behalf I have moved Second Reading, was called away. I am an ex-surveyor, so I have had an awful lot to do with property boundaries over the years. I thought I left them behind when I was elected, but all of a sudden—
The Deputy Speaker interrupted the business (
Bill to be read a Second time on
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