Hillsborough

Lord Mann Excerpts

Wednesday 12th February 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mrs May]

It is extremely unfortunate that, at various stages, South Yorkshire police did not provide all the evidence, but I was pleased that they were willing to respond to and provide information to the independent panel. It is in everyone’s interests that we should be able to get to the full truth and to see justice done.

[John Mann (Bassetlaw) (Lab)]

Perhaps the biggest risk to safety in football stadiums today is that posed by a panic mass evacuation, following a bomb scare, for example, or a terrorist incident. Will the Home Secretary confirm that there is no requirement on any stadium to have a test mass evacuation using real people, that no such tests have been carried out and that every football stadium in the country relies on computer simulations to determine whether its mass evacuation plans will actually work?

[Mrs May]

I will certainly look into that matter. If I may, I will write to the hon. Gentleman on the issue.