Clause 20
Coroners and Justice Bill
6:00 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
In the interests of open government, which I know the Minister is fond of—although following the statement from the Secretary of State this afternoon, I rather wonder—will the Minister place in the Library the policy notes that went with the draft Bill in 2006? We could then see the power of the Government’s thinking in that year, which recommended the new clauses that my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Norfolk has so eloquently addressed the Committee about. Presumably, unless there has been some fundamental blockage of the ministerial team’s brain cells, the arguments which were good in 2006 must be good in 2009 and there must be some other reason—perhaps something along the lines that my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire suggested, or that the Minister is about to tell us.