RSPCA (Prosecutions)
Debate between Simon Hart and Hywel Williams(12 years, 3 months ago)
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Simon Hart
I emphasise that nowhere in any of my comments have I ever suggested that the RSPCA should not be allowed to prosecute. The hon. Lady is misleading the House by suggesting that that is what I am recommending. I am recommending that the process needs to be reviewed, not the policy.
Hywel Williams (in the Chair)
Order. I think I heard the hon. Gentleman say that the hon. Lady was misleading the House. She certainly was not, or I would have told her so.
Simon Hart
If I did, I did so in error. I know that the hon. Lady will take my comments in the spirit in which they were intended.