Karin Smyth
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Sue Gray Report
Karin Smyth Excerpts(2 years, 3 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
I think there is a criticism of the Metropolitan police contained in what the hon. Lady just said, which I do not agree with.
Karin Smyth (Bristol South) (Lab)
The problem with the report is that the dates that are outlined so clearly reopen many of our wounds. I am going to ask the Prime Minister the question that the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Aaron Bell) asked earlier but the Prime Minister did not answer: when he met with Sue Gray recently, did he ask her not to publish the report?
The Prime Minister
No. What I can tell the hon. Lady is that the report is wholly independent and the judgments contained in it are a matter for Sue Gray. I am grateful to her for what she has done, and her interim report was extremely useful to the Government in making the changes that we have made.