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Legislative debate on Wednesday, 28 June 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Tony McNulty. The answering member was Lord Herbert of South Downs.
Draft SI on Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (code of practice c and code of practice h). Motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c279-92 
Session
2005-06
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Code of Practice C and Code of Practice H) Order 2006
Wednesday, 14 June 2006
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 448 c292 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. I hope the Minister will forgive my interruption; I had thought him on the cusp ...
Tony McNulty | 448 c292 (Link to this contribution) I, too, will not be provoked. Let me get back to my failed attempt at a peroration which, as I attem...

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Tony McNulty | 448 c292 (Link to this contribution) I had reached my peroration, but I shall, of course, give way.
Tony McNulty | 448 c292 (Link to this contribution) Of course, once I have breathed and finished my sentence.
Tony McNulty | 448 c292 (Link to this contribution) I have already said to the hon. Member for Beaconsfield that that is a fair point and that I will lo...
Tony McNulty | 448 c290 (Link to this contribution) It is far from that. ““Cheapish”” is right this time. There was some value, so his remarks were not ...
Speaker | 448 c290 (Link to this contribution) Order. As the Minister himself said, this is a very narrow debate—[Laughter.] Perhaps we might retur...
Tony McNulty | 448 c290-1 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker, for intervening to get me off that track. I suppos...
David Heath | 448 c291 (Link to this contribution) I sense that the Minister is coming to a conclusion—
Tony McNulty | 448 c291 (Link to this contribution) I suspect and hope it will be the latter. If, not because of the Bill but because of other activity,...
Tony McNulty | 448 c290 (Link to this contribution) They were not completely cheap, but cheapish, in line with the hon. Gentleman’s usual—
Baroness Featherstone | 448 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) Liberal Democrats strongly opposed the extension of detention without charge from 14 days to 90 days...
Tony McNulty | 448 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) That is an entirely reasonable point, although it may not be germane to the integrity of the code of...
Dominic Grieve | 448 c289 (Link to this contribution) Usually, a very detailed record is kept of what happens when a prisoner is detained in a police stat...
Tony McNulty | 448 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall try and deal with some of the points raised in this appropriate...
Richard Shepherd | 448 c288 (Link to this contribution) I understand, Madam Deputy Speaker. That is why I have tried to focus on the fact that the code is a...
Speaker | 448 c288 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must intervene, as we are not discussing the period of detention but rather the code of pra...
Greg Knight | 448 c287 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. What period of detention would he regard as acceptable?
Richard Shepherd | 448 c287 (Link to this contribution) My heart sank when my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. H...
Viscount Hailsham | 448 c286-7 (Link to this contribution) Much of the ground has been covered in the substantive debates on the Terrorism Act 2006, so I shall...
Richard Shepherd | 448 c281 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say more about the human rights implications of code H, and its compatibility with...
Tony McNulty | 448 c280-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but that is exactly what I have already said. That is entirely the position. As it says ...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 448 c281-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his explanation of the purpose of the codes. This order concerns t...
Tony McNulty | 448 c281 (Link to this contribution) I would like to say that I am shocked to hear the hon. Gentleman raise the Human Rights Act, but I a...
Tony McNulty | 448 c279 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Code of Practice C and Code of ...
Viscount Hailsham | 448 c279-80 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt, but I believe that it goes further than that. My understanding of the statu...
Tony McNulty | 448 c279 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for staying within the strictures of the debat...
Viscount Hailsham | 448 c283 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that we supported 28 days. That is true in a limited sense. We opposed 90 days a...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 448 c283-4 (Link to this contribution) I respect my right hon. and learned Friend’s point of view on the matter. He has clearly and consist...
Viscount Hailsham | 448 c279 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been clear about his wish not to revisit the time periods; I understand that. But w...
David Heath | 448 c291 (Link to this contribution) I beg his pardon. The Minister has not responded to the issue raised by my hon. Friend the Member f...
Viscount Hailsham | 448 c291-2 (Link to this contribution) Building on the point made by the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) and adopting the po...
Subjects
Criminal proceedings
Codes of practice
Crime prevention
Detainees
Arrests
Human rights
Police
Police interrogation
Terrorism
Legislation
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Code of Practice C and Code of Practice H) Order 2006
Link
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