Olympics (Security) Debate

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Department: Home Office
Monday 16th July 2012

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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Of course all parties involved have been working to ensure that the security that is provided is the security that is needed for the Olympic games. That is what is being put in place, and that is why we took the contingency arrangements we did in immediately calling in those 3,500 troops to ensure that we could maintain the levels of security we require.

Dennis Skinner Portrait Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab)
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It is inconceivable that the Cabinet Committee that was overlooking this matter did not spot this—or was it that it believed its own mantra: “public sector bad; private sector good”? Who is on this Committee?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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The hon. Gentleman says that the Cabinet Committee should have spotted this, but G4S spotted it only in the last few days. That is what is absolutely clear and that is what G4S has admitted.