Clause 1

Part of Compensation Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:30 am on 22 June 2006.

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Photo of Julian Brazier Julian Brazier Shadow Minister (Transport) 9:30, 22 June 2006

Does the hon. Member for North Durham not appreciate that we are desperately short of Scout masters and Guide leaders because of those cases? He was in his place when I described the Manchester case, which took place six days after the first debate in the House of Lords—it was in the middle of the process there. In that case, an award was made against the Scouts of £15,000. A Brownie attending a pantomime put on by the Scouts as a kindness to younger children  allegedly cut herself when she put her hand under her chair in an auditorium that had been separately inspected twice—once by the Scout master and once by the licensing officer from the council. I read out the details, and the hon. Gentleman was there—