Forensic Evidence: Alleged Manipulation Debate

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Forensic Evidence: Alleged Manipulation

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Industrial Strategy
Monday 27th November 2017

(7 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Hurd Portrait Mr Hurd
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How nice to have been a Minister before the age of austerity. The answer to the right hon. Gentleman’s question is that he is jumping the gun in terms of the police investigation. We should let Greater Manchester police do their work.

Rebecca Pow Portrait Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane) (Con)
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Obviously this is extremely serious. Can my hon. Friend confirm that his Department is providing all the necessary support so that the police can prioritise testing live cases?

Nick Hurd Portrait Mr Hurd
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I thank my hon. Friend for that question. Again, I am satisfied, having reviewed our process, as I do regularly, that the system and the gold command, which was set up very quickly, have done a good enough job of prioritising cases and getting retesting going as quickly as possible. As I said, the last numbers I saw suggested that 70% of the priority cases were in the system for retesting.

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