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Deregulation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Prescott (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 4 November 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Deregulation Bill.

I thank the Minister very much for giving a response to the last point—I could not expect him to have all the details, but at least he is aware of the problem. However, I still believe it is the right of every British citizen to have an investigation or an

inquest—if, for example, their daughter has died. We should surely be entitled to report back to the people and have our Government involved in an inquest, as the Americans are doing. Our Government say, “It happened on a ship registered in the Bahamas”—but the authorities there have not had an inquest, so we should do it. I do not expect the Minister to give an answer, as it is a highly technical point, but perhaps he could just write to me with information from the department as to why we cannot have an inquest on a citizen who has gone missing, whatever the circumstances. The Americans have acted on it, and the least we could do is offer an inquest in which our own police are involved.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
756 c668GC 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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