Extract from Hansard (Friday 5 March 2004) during the second reading of the
Promotion of Volunteering Bill:
Mr Brazier: "...I am happy to repeat my reassurance on the Data
Protection Act, and that provision could not go on to the
statute book as drafted. I discussed that point until the last
moment, and I accept that I have still not got it right...
"It may help the House and hon. Members who will serve on the
Committee to know that, as I have made clear throughout - the
Minister has echoed this - the latter parts of the Bill are
negotiable. Clause 2, including subsection (2), needs to be
tightened up and re-examined, but the underlying principle of
the Bill, which the consortium of volunteer organisations
supports, is that we need a solid mechanism for raising the
barrier for negligence claims against volunteers. There is not
a single organisation that wants a single act of negligence
to be committed against a single child or adult, but
volunteers are worried about the threat to adventure-training
and sporting organisations posed by cases such as Vowles."
Might I thank colleagues for their helpful comments? The second reading
having been agreed to, the bill now proceeds to its Committee Stage.
--
Graham Smith
P.S. Please email me if you would like a copy of the entire debate in Word
format - be warned that it runs to over 50 pages!
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