Mike Veale: Police Conduct Report Debate

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Mike Veale: Police Conduct Report

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Monday 7th March 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
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The IOPC does not usually provide updates on its investigations, but certainly when it has completed its investigations, its reports are published.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, can I take my noble friend back to the Question asked by my noble friend Lord Lexden? I entirely endorse his personal comments about her, but the case of Mr Veale, who appears to have tarnished every office he has held and whose traducing of Edward Heath still remains on the record, really is extremely unsatisfactory. This should be properly investigated. For reasons I do not understand, we have heard constant refusals to have a proper inquiry into Conifer and Midland. We need one. It is not too late to have one now.

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
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I am afraid that I must disappoint my noble friend by telling him that we do not have any plans to commission a review of either the conduct of the investigation into the allegations made against Sir Edward Heath or the findings of that investigation.