Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Dan Jarvis Excerpts
Tuesday 11th October 2011

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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As my hon. Friend will know from the legislation, the boundary commissions will be listening to all representations. They have a fair amount of latitude under the legislation to listen to representations, including those that relate to community links in each and every area.

Dan Jarvis Portrait Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab)
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Does the Deputy Prime Minister support the release of all unredacted and uncensored Government documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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Yes, I very much do. It is very important that we get to see all the relevant papers. I pay tribute to the former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who did a great deal in the first place to create the panel that will receive these papers. The only point that I would make, however, is that it seems to me that we should allow the families, who are still grieving their losses from that terrible tragedy, to look at those papers first before they are fully published by the panel.