Points of Order

Theresa May Excerpts

Monday 24th January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The Home Secretary is about to provide enlightenment.

[The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mrs Theresa May)]

I am grateful for the opportunity to do so. We will place draft emergency legislation in the Library of the House—[Hon. Members: “When?”] We did not say that it would be placed in the Library before the current legislation lapsed. Emergency legislation is available for the use of this House in the intervening period, if necessary, and that is section 25 of the Terrorism Act 2006. The correct legal process for reducing the period from 28 days to 14 days is to allow the existing legislation to lapse because that was the sunset clause put in the legislation by the last Labour Government.

[Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South) (Lab)]

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