UK Parliament / Open data

Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]

Will the right hon. Gentleman therefore clarify his party’s position if we were in a negotiation with another country and the other country said, “Look, we cannot give you the death penalty assurances”? Some 99.9% of the data requests under this Bill will be concerned with crimes of paedophilia or the other crimes that I described earlier. Should the death penalty become a bar, is the right hon. Gentleman saying that the UK should not enter into an agreement because of the rare occasions on which an offence may involve the death penalty? Would he sacrifice the 99.9% for that?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
650 c597 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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