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Debate between Robert Flello and Chloe Smith
Wednesday 4th September 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Flello Portrait Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)
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T4. Leading human rights lawyer Helen Mountfield QC said this week that the transparency of lobbying Bill will put“small organisations and their trustees/directors in fear of criminal penalty if they speak out on matters of public interest and concern.”Will the Minister finally wake up and do something about this appalling Bill?

Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Chloe Smith
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That leading QC’s advice in fact bears out that those concerns exist under the current legislation. Furthermore, we see a great show of displacement activity among Labour Members because they are afraid of some of their friends coming under scrutiny.

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