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Stalking Protection Bill

Proceeding contribution from Tracy Brabin (Labour) in the House of Commons on Friday, 19 January 2018. It occurred during Debate on bills on Stalking Protection Bill.

I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) on introducing this Bill. In my constituency, amazing work was done by the family of Clare Wood on Clare’s law, which was about the obligation of the police to disclose details of a history of violent behaviour if these were requested. But the right-to-know element to Clare’s law has been underused, and only 43% of requests to the police have been granted, with this seeming to be a postcode lottery. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that what is really to be celebrated about the Bill is that resources will be given to the police, so that they can respond swiftly and completely to requests?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
634 c1237 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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