Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

David Davis Excerpts
Monday 10th June 2013

(10 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Damian Green Portrait Damian Green
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This is an investigation done partly by the Metropolitan police, who are operationally independent, and by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, so it is not for Ministers to set timetables. Indeed, I urge the House to recognise that to ask Ministers to intervene closely and in detail in the work of operationally independent police forces or the IPCC would be the wrong way to go.

David Davis Portrait Mr David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) (Con)
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In view of the revelations of the past week, will the policing Minister put in place a strict disciplinary code that requires all police officers of all ranks to keep a comprehensive and accurate record of all contacts they have with the press?