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HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I think the Minister can hear the concern from Members on both sides of the Committee that this will not be as effective if there is no individual responsibility, and if those who…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I rise to speak to amendments 55 and 58 to 60, which would strengthen command responsibility. On amendment 55, schedule 2(5) appears to mean that responsibility for the actions of…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I welcome you to your place, Mr Dowd. As I rise to speak, the four people who gave evidence to us on Thursday are holding a press conference regarding the Independent Office for…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I agree wholeheartedly. I cannot envisage a circumstance where clause 2(5) would be enforced. All reasonable steps could include deferring to the authority lawyers or senior…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I want to put on record our thanks to Marie Lyon for all the work that she has done. She outlined exactly what my right hon. Friend has said about that report, and the families’…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 50, in clause 9, page 8, line 15, leave out subsection and insert— “(b) the making by any person of disclosures which are protected disclosures in terms of…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)Absolutely. Many of us here have experience trying to get to the truth. What we tried to do will be highlighted in the Independent Office for Police Conduct report. Unfortunately,…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the Minister for that; I beg to ask leave to the withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q Thanks to the four of you for what you have done, and for what you put yourselves through all the time to get here. You know as well as I do that this is the legacy, isn’t it?…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q If they are not added, will the Bill be poorer for it? Will you have confidence in the Bill without them? Charlotte Hennessy: I think they are needed; they make the Bill…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Lord Evans, for your support of a Hillsborough law. We heard clear evidence this morning about the Manchester Arena bombing, and we are going to hear later on from a…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q It is good to speak to you, Peter. I have a couple of quick points after what we listened to last week when we went to visit the security services; this was raised, and I would…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q As you have outlined, and as has been said lots today, this is the legacy: this is what we have all been fighting for, and what you have fought for, for a long time. Andy, you…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q To Tom and Professor Lewis, under the Bill as drafted, could a public authority have a legitimate reason for not complying with the duty of candour? If yes, can you give me an…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thanks, Daniel—it has been a fascinating evidence session so far. You have a lot of personal experience with MI5 over the last couple of years. Do you genuinely believe that the…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Lord Evans, would you accept that the Bill requires no additional disclosure beyond what is already required, and that it is actually about whether the information supplied is…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q That goes to the heart of the Bill. What you have just outlined is exactly why we need that enforced duty of candour. Obviously, that is not just about an individual; you are…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q I sat in an inquest open day, and we touched on the Lampard statutory public inquiry into the deaths of mental health patients in Essex. That started off as an independent…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q We are here today for the journey of legislation to stop the culture of state cover-ups in this country. Certainly at the heart of the state cover-up of Hillsborough was the…27 Nov 2025