Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 9:52 pm on 19 February 1990.
I realise that this is a complex matter, but I should not have thought that it would take six weeks to provide an answer to the question. Does the Home Office accept that it has a responsibility to make a fairly early statement on the report by Gordon Wasserman—one o its senior officials—on related forensic issues? The sooner that happens, the better it will be for forensic science. Some of us recognise that there are real difficulties over recruiting forensic scientists. The Government ought to pay regard to that problem.