Health Bill

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point and I admire his courage in standing up for his principles. It is an extraordinary notion of health and safety that we should tell people who are working in an environment that is bad for their health, ““Tough. Go and work somewhere else.”” If asbestos was found in the roof of a private members’ club, we would not tell the staff to work somewhere else. We would sort out the health and safety problem, which is exactly what we should do in this case.