Members dealt with not so much today as on Monday. There is some force in what he said, but the risks in being adopted by fat people or smokers are very, very much smaller than those attendant on a child who is not adopted, but left in care. It is important that we devise methods, such as those suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden, to ensure that more children are adopted and adopted more quickly. We must also ensure that the decision-making process involves appropriate decisiveness and minimum delay, and at various points we need sanctions against bureaucratic inertia.
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Given the increasing court time taken up by child protection and adoption cases, a culture of delay in family justice also has to be tackled. Column 1246 as far as possible, with fast-track procedures such as those to which my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden drew attention. Some cases are difficult, but in many examples it would be reasonable to expect that to be achieved. There is, of course, a wider argument about separating children's cases from the generality of court work.