Given the number of cases in which schedule 21 has been inappropriately used, can the right hon. Gentleman explain to the House what the definition is of a “potentially infectious” person? How is a police officer meant to know who is potentially infectious, and in the middle of a pandemic does that not include every single one of us, and are not the powers that the police have been given to detain us really quite worrying? Will he undertake to look at this again?
Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)
Proceeding contribution from
Hilary Benn
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 30 September 2020.
It occurred during Debate on Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions).
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