Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 18 May 2009.
Alan Campbell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Crime Reduction)
2:30,
18 May 2009
My right hon. Friend is exactly right, and I pay tribute to the work of his Committee and to the important opportunity offered by last week's seminar, which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary attended. There was an important sharing of views on these matters. He asks when the Home Secretary, and indeed the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, will report back to the Prime Minister. I believe that that will happen shortly—within the next few weeks.
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