Part of Children and Adoption Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:00 am ar 16 Mawrth 2006.
David Kidney
PPS (Mr Elliot Morley, Minister of State), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
10:00,
16 Mawrth 2006
So that I may reassure the hon. Gentleman that he is opposed not simply by jobbing lawyers on the Government Back Benches, will he confirm that the university of Oxford briefing, from which he quoted the Family Law Act 1996, concludes by arguing against introducing to the Bill the presumption in favour of contact, saying that we would be better off concentrating our efforts on post-separation parenting?
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