Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alistair Burt and Roger Mullin

Tuesday 22nd March 2016 Commons Chamber

[Alistair Burt]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. What has caused the confusion has been a definition of loss of liberty and dying in state detention that bears no relation to anyone’s common-sense understanding of the situation. Whatever new legislation is proposed by the Law Commission, it must meet the test of being much simpler, but it must also meet the legislative test of meaning what it says so that it does not get disrupted in the courts again.

[Roger Mullin (Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) (SNP)]

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