I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way; he is indeed being very generous. The public interest test is applied in every prosecution in this country—it is one of the requirements that the Crown Prosecution Service must meet before it mounts a prosecution, so it is hardly alien to our legal system. Surely, my hon. Friend is asking for the sort of clarity in sentencing that our hon. Friend the Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) asked for earlier from the Ministry of Justice. He was assured that that was part of Government thinking.
UK Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David Heath
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 May 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills on UK Borders Bill.
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