Philip Davies
Main Page: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley) Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Programme) (No.2)
Philip Davies ExcerptsMonday 5th July 2021
(2 years, 9 months ago)
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Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
I do not want to take up too much time because the time we spend now eats into the time for the main debate. However, it is important to register that literally hundreds of new clauses and amendments have been tabled to the Bill. It is a 300-page Bill, which had two days for Second Reading. The fact that it has only one day on Report is an absolute abuse of this House.
We are supposed to carry out a job of scrutinising legislation and ensuring that it is fit for purpose, but we will have a matter of a few hours for Report. The Minister has no opportunity to engage in debate on all the new clauses to explain why the Government will accept or reject them. Surely the least this House should be able to expect is to have some proper free-flowing debate and some explanation from the Government of their position on each of the new clauses, which people have taken the time and trouble to table. It is an absolute disgrace and it is important that that point is registered before we start the debate because it is an abuse of this House.
Mr Speaker
I did allow that contribution—there was special dispensation—so that it could be put on the record.
Question put and agreed to.