Clause 3

Part of National Insurance Contributions Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 11:00 am on 7 December 2010.

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Photo of Stephen Williams Stephen Williams Liberal Democrat, Bristol West 11:00, 7 December 2010

May I again help the hon. Gentleman with his history? This time it is Labour history. In 1947, when the second greatest Welshman of the 20th century,  Aneurin Bevan, was drafting the National Health Service Bill, he was determined to move away from the contributory principle in health care, which is what many people had had to do until then. He was determined that the NHS should be funded from general taxation, not national insurance.