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Public Order Bill

Proceeding contribution from Yvette Cooper (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 23 May 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Order Bill.

I beg to move,

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Public Order Bill because, notwithstanding the importance of safeguarding vital national infrastructure alongside the right to protest peacefully, the Bill does not include provisions for cooperation between police, public and private authorities to prevent serious disruption to essential services, includes instead measures that replicate existing powers, includes powers that are too widely drawn and which erode historic freedoms of peaceful protest, ignores the need for effective use of existing powers and does not recognise emergency NHS services as vital national infrastructure.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
715 c55 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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