Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Bone Excerpts
Tuesday 11th October 2011

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Grieve Portrait The Attorney-General
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I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s point, and for the reasons that I gave in answer to the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy), I can see that it has considerable force, but I do not think that it is the specific responsibility of the CPS to deliver on this. It would require work with other agencies to achieve it and, for those reasons, it is something that I am happy to see taken forward, but it is not something that the CPS on its own can deliver.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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The Attorney-General is right that the issue of guardianship is for other parts of the Government. However, he is responsible for sentencing. The Government, in their human trafficking strategy, promised a review by December. Will he update us on how that review is going and congratulate the Prime Minister on marking anti-slavery day by having a reception in Downing street on 19 October?

Dominic Grieve Portrait The Attorney-General
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I join my hon. Friend in congratulating the Prime Minister on properly commemorating anti-slavery day. I am afraid, however, that I am not in a position to give my hon. Friend an update. There is a timetable for this report to come out. If I have any further information on the matter, I shall write to him.