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David T C Davies Excerpts
Tuesday 21st July 2015

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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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 Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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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 Portrait Priti Patel
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My hon. Friend raises a very valid point. When it comes to deaths, these are personal and individual tragedies, in circumstances—[Interruption.]