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HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q The Bill seeks to deal with these things by having proper equal legal representation, which is a good thing in my view. Do you think it is enough? Again, it was the Hillsborough…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q Do you agree that accountability of those responsible is one of the main things that families in disasters want? Pete Weatherby: Yes, absolutely.27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)Q I just want your views, Mr Guest, on whether the new offences—committing a seriously improper act in public office and the breach of duty to prevent death and serious…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (First sitting)In 2012. It took a long time for that to be fully put to bed. Pete Weatherby: Without a blink, in all the cases that I have done, you start with the tragedy itself, and of course…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)A double apology, indeed. To what extent do you think the Bill would benefit from having some provisions, if they could be fitted into order, about empowering independent panels…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)It would be perfectly reasonable for you to write to the Committee with a more considered response. Lord Evans of Weardale: I will look at the possibility of doing that. Again, I…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Yes—so that whoever is in charge actually bears the legal liability for any failings that are discovered. Lord Evans of Weardale: I am always rather cautious of answering…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q It is very interesting to hear the evidence you have both given. I am interested in not only the parity of arms but the concept of a public authority’s legal representation…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)No, don’t worry. Jenni Hicks: I know from experience and my journey that it was the thing that worked. It just worked. What worked was being able to read the documents. When…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q In view of what you have said, do you think that your current powers are adequate? If it were in order for us to put something about your role into the Bill, would you think…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you; that is interesting. Does that mean that, if there is an amendment, as there may be later in Committee, to introduce command responsibility rather than just corporate…27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)We may be agreeing.27 Nov 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you think that the parity of arms, however it is achieved—whether it is bringing down the level of representation of the public authorities or increasing the level of…27 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) Billrose—03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillThis is the first time that any Government have brought forward legislation to tackle what went wrong at Hillsborough. It is a fulfilment of a Labour manifesto commitment and a…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillThe Prime Minister knows that, for over two decades, the legal system failed to provide truth and justice to the Hillsborough families, and it was only a non-legal process—the…03 Nov 2025HANSARDJaguar Land Rover Cyber-attackI congratulate my hon. Friend and neighbour the Member for Widnes and Halewood (Derek Twigg) on securing this urgent question. I used to represent the Halewood plant until…09 Sept 2025HANSARD UK-France Nuclear PartnershipI have nothing further to say on that today, as the hon. Gentleman would probably expect in a response to an urgent question on nuclear co-ordination.10 Jul 2025HANSARD UK-France Nuclear PartnershipI thank the hon. Gentleman for his support for deeper defence co-operation. On the co-ordination of our nuclear deterrence—there is no extreme threat to Europe that would not…10 Jul 2025HANSARD UK-France Nuclear PartnershipThe hon. Gentleman complains about the amount of time it has taken this Government to do things in respect of defence, but we had to pick up the mess that was left by his…10 Jul 2025