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The annual awards event and 90th anniversary celebrations in 2007.
It resulted in Mark writing on behalf of BHTA to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown and ve Parliamentary Questions being tabled. A series of meetings were also held with MEPs and of cials at the EU Commission. BHTA also worked with the European Disability Forum with the press and radio being used to highlight developments, with coverage in the Daily Telegraph.
Meanwhile, level playing elds were a cause of concern again as this time, the Decontamination Section were faced with challenges. Chairman of the Section, John Hollands of Goldsworth Medical said: “The NHS seems only to want to deal with the big companies, leaving smaller ones with less chance of obtaining contracts. We are trying to nd a solution so that smaller companies can trade equally.”
At the end of the year, the 90th anniversary dinner and Awards was held at Central Hall, Westminster. Guest speaker, Charles Clarke MP, re ected on the fact that so many of the issues that were being considered in 1917, in such very different times, reverberate still.
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