Clause 6

Part of Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at on 26 October 2006.

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Photo of Dominic Grieve Dominic Grieve Shadow Attorney General

I am grateful to the Minister for explaining the scope of the amendments. I have two concerns. The first is that he wants to extend a particular sort of training to the Prison Service. Is the drafting such that the Prison Service will be the only organisation caught by it? It seems to me that the wording has the potential to extend much further than that.

I realise that exhaustive lists can sometimes be a risk, because civil servants cannot always identify every public authority that might be covered, but my feeling is that the provision goes much wider than the Prison Service. On the face of it, any organisation involved, even peripherally, in operations dealing with terrorism, civil unrest and serious public disorder would be caught. Perhaps they should be covered, but unless the Committee has a pretty clear view of what we are talking about, there is a slight risk of our letting through something much wider in scope than we realise.