Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Jake Berry Excerpts
Tuesday 9th November 2021

(2 years, 12 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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It would help if you reopened Chorley.

Jake Berry Portrait Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen) (Con)
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I will let you get the benefit of the applause, Mr Speaker.

On a recent trip out with officers from the Waterfoot police station in Rawtenstall, one of the challenges they talked about in getting cases to court is that the Crown Prosecution Service insists that full disclosure is done before charge. Will my hon. Friend go away and look at that? It is currently warranted officers doing that disclosure, when it could easily be a civilianised job. Will he agree to speak to the Crown Prosecution Service and his colleagues in the Home Office to ensure that Lancashire constabulary—as you know, Mr Speaker, the finest police officers in our United Kingdom—can be out getting criminals and not doing paperwork?