• http://www.bikebiz.com/index.php/news/read/helmet-compulsion-jemmied-into-parliamentary-debate-about-cycle-safety/013976

    Quoted on Hansard

    "Your coalition minister, Norman Baker, has publicly voiced his negative views on helmets and their use. Mr Baker’s personal choice and opinion have been widely used by cycling trainers and organisations to legitimise opposition to helmets. The attached document used by the UK’s largest provider of Bikeability training, Cycle Training UK, demonstrates this. This organisation also uses your picture to support its stance. We understand that Mr Baker has set up and leads a forum of selected cycle stakeholders. This is not open to all, but only a selected few who appear to us to be of a similar opinion. Mr Baker appears to be using his ministerial position to support his personal preference not to wear a helmet.
    I assume this (PdF)is the doc referred to.
    Cycle Training orgs do NOT oppose helmets, just oppose compulsion

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