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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Excerpts

Wednesday 3rd July 2013 Lords Chamber

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

I defer to the many Privy Counsellors in your Lordships’ Chamber. Not being one, I have not yet attended a meeting, so I am not in a position to comment fully, but I entirely understand the point that my noble friend is making.

[Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean]

The Minister said that wrongdoing took place, so can he explain the Government's retreat from the position that the victims of that wrongdoing had to be satisfied by the outcome of what is now before the Privy Council? Will he please explain to those victims that retreat and the delay in giving them the satisfaction that was promised?

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

The important thing is to make sure that this is done properly and correctly, and that is what is being done. I do not quite understand what the noble Baroness means in so far as we are going through the current process because of the need to ensure that this does not happen again.

[Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean]

What about the victims?

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

I understood that. The victims are precisely why we are here. It is to ensure that this does not happen again. That is the final objective that we need to secure.