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Debate between Mike Penning and Meg Munn
Monday 23rd March 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Penning Portrait The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning)
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I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the campaigning and work he has done on behalf of his constituents whose lives have been blighted by these illegal camps. When we are back in government after the election, we will look at the law—I can assure you of that, Mr Speaker—but we must also make sure that the police use the powers they have and are not frightened of using them, as appears to have happened in certain parts of the country, including in my hon. Friend’s part of Essex.

Meg Munn Portrait Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab/Co-op)
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T7. I am concerned about a recommendation in a recent Home Affairs Committee report that those arrested on sexual offences charges should be given anonymity. Does the Home Secretary agree that in these circumstances, these prosecutions are extraordinarily difficult, and that the decision should be made carefully by the police? Will she ask the independent panel inquiry also to look at this issue?