Salisbury Incident Debate

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Department: Home Office

Salisbury Incident

Nick Smith Excerpts
Thursday 8th March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the professional approach we need to take to this incident. We must support the police, who have such a strong and rightly earned reputation internationally, to make sure they have the space and time to make the inquiries, collect the evidence and then proceed.

Nick Smith Portrait Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)
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Can the Home Secretary tell us more about the work of Wiltshire public health officials to keep local people safe?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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The chief medical officer has told us, given the information we have now, that she thinks the threat to the public is low, which I know will reassure local health officials in Wiltshire.