The Minister is being generous, and I am happy to make this my last intervention.
If the Minister accepts that the relationship is more distant for Ministers than the one that went before, is he not also saying that Ministers are taking less responsibility? If that is the case—as it must be, logically—is he not distancing himself from failure, as Lord McKenzie said?
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Oliver Heald
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 June 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill.
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