Salisbury Incident

Debate between Amber Rudd and Nick Smith

Thursday 8th March 2018 Commons Chamber

[Amber Rudd]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the professional approach we need to take to this incident. We must support the police, who have such a strong and rightly earned reputation internationally, to make sure they have the space and time to make the inquiries, collect the evidence and then proceed.

[Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)]

Can the Home Secretary tell us more about the work of Wiltshire public health officials to keep local people safe?

[Amber Rudd]

The chief medical officer has told us, given the information we have now, that she thinks the threat to the public is low, which I know will reassure local health officials in Wiltshire.