David Heath: ...No. 18, which would ensure that every new trust had on its board a lay magistrate and a local councillor. I appreciate that those are two classes of person to whom the Government have a violent allergy, as they have demonstrated time and again, but there is no better representation of the local community than representation by those who are elected via the ballot box to play that role, and...
David Heath: ...shown to be wrong, as they have been, they have not made any effort to retract their statements. That is deplorable. Why do we have that campaign against the Human Rights Act? One reason is the allergy to the word "European". The fact that the name of the convention is the European convention on human rights leads some who are ill informed to assume that it is the spawn of the European...
David Heath: ...of the Exchequer, as it was he who originally announced the merger of the two research bodies. However, given that the announcement will please some and upset others, and knowing the Chancellor's allergy to anything that might be construed as bad news, perhaps it will come from the newly appointed Minister for Science and Innovation. The Attorney-General has a duty to give advice not only...
David Heath: ..., and made it effective. I disagree with the hon. Member for South-West Devon, the Conservative spokesman, about the European Court of Justice, to which Conservatives seem to have some sort of allergy. I do not believe that it is necessarily an inappropriate means of making the concept justiciable. Inevitably, there must be an adjudicator, and that adjudicator cannot be an appellant....