Clause 7 - Requests for assistance in obtaining
Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
I am unsure whether I was correct in thinking that the Minister was coming to the end of his remarks, but I wanted to intervene on him to give him a chance to address this point. The Attorney-General said, on requesting authorities providing this information where they consider it to be appropriate:
''in many cases, good practice may indicate that they would do so.''—[Official Report, House of Lords, 13 January 2003; Vol. 643, c. GC37.]
If even the Attorney-General, after having stated his main objection that we have no international obligation, went on to say that about good practice, would it not be a good idea to have that good practice—which even the Attorney-General thinks is good practice—in the Bill?