David T C Davies
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(9 years, 4 months ago)
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Priti Patel
With courtesy to the Father of the House, I would re-emphasise that the data will be published, and when they are published, he can review them.
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that any death is of course a tragedy, but that individual tragedies should not simply be rolled into a set of statistics and then plucked out by people who obviously have a political agenda to push?
Priti Patel
My hon. Friend raises a very valid point. When it comes to deaths, these are personal and individual tragedies, in circumstances—[Interruption.]