Business of the House (Police (Detention and Bail) Bill) Debate
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Yvette Cooper
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Business of the House (Police (Detention and Bail) Bill)
Yvette Cooper Excerpts(13 years, 3 months ago)
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Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) (Lab)
We support the motion, and we will address some of the main issues when we get to Second Reading and further stages. I simply point out to the Policing Minister that we would have supported this motion on Monday, we would have supported it last week and we would have supported it the week before. I do not think it is acceptable for the Home Office, which has responsibility for justice, to hide behind the Association of Chief Police Officers when it should also have made preparations and taken some decisions in this regard. The Home Office should have been trying to speed this up as rapidly as possible. We should get on with the main debate; we support the programme motion.