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Hate Crime (29 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: May I send our sincere condolences to the victims of yesterday’s appalling attack in Istanbul, and send an uncompromising message to the terrorists that they will never prevail? I congratulate the Minister on her excellent statement to the House. Any referendum has the potential to create division in society, and this one was no different. We have probably all felt the rising tension on the...

Football Fan Violence: Euro 2016 (14 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: (Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the incidents of violence in Marseille over the weekend involving England fans at the Euro 2016 football tournament.

Football Fan Violence: Euro 2016 (14 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: As the dust settles on a terrible weekend in Marseille, attention is turning to security around England’s next game. While England fans were certainly not blameless at the weekend, it is clear that they were the subject of extreme violence meted out by Russian supporters. Whatever the rights and wrongs, we cannot afford to see any repeat of that. I am sure we are all agreed on that, but...

Policing and Crime Bill: Commencement (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: The fairest thing that we can say about this Bill is that it is a decidedly mixed bag. On the one hand it makes improvements to police accountability, but on the other it undermines the independence of the fire service and the police service by allowing volunteers to replace front-line staff. None the less, the Bill leaves this House in a better state than it came to us in. I pay tribute to...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: The Minister has made the position clear, but in doing so he will not have pleased many people who are campaigning for justice for people who have suffered press intrusion. Will he be explicit that what he has just outlined is in fact a weakening of the Government’s position? A couple of years ago, the Prime Minister promised that there would be a stage 2, but tonight we are being told that...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: The issue of parity of legal funding at inquests at which the the police are represented goes beyond Hillsborough. It affects many families fighting many injustices. It goes beyond the work of Bishop James Jones. Could we at least have a commitment that the Government will work with us to seek that parity and equality of legal funding at inquests? That commitment would mean something.

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: That is exactly what lies behind the new clause. My right hon. Friend has just made my point. We will all have examples from our experience as constituency MPs. We know families who have been at inquests that have been highly unsatisfactory experiences, and where they did not get legal support. I will come to a few examples, to show how unfair it is. The public sector spends taxpayers’...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: That is right, and as has been hinted at, that delay is often used to grind people down even further. It really does not work, and Parliament must decide whether we are prepared to let people carry on going through such an entirely unsatisfactory process. I do not think we should. In people’s experiences today we can see parallels with those of the Hillsborough families. To give a current...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: That is extraordinarily unfair, although this Government have made things even more unfair with their cuts to legal aid. People are not getting through and they are not getting funding when they apply in the way that they would have done in the past. They are unrepresented at these inquests, which cannot be right.

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: The amendment is designed to develop the same effect and to state that there should be parity of legal funding. That is an incentive for the public sector not to spend too much on its own. If it has to fund families as well, that might bring down the legal bill—it might not add any further costs.

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: We need inquisitorial inquests rather than adversarial inquests. In the case of Hillsborough, the Lord Chief Justice made a specific ruling when he quashed the original inquest. He hoped, given that the police had clearly tainted the evidence, that the new inquest would not degenerate into an adversarial battle, but—I am afraid to say—that is exactly what happened. At public expense, one...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: No, it does not. My hon. Friend makes a good point, and I cannot see why that should not happen. Equally, I cannot see why the Government would not accept the Bill, proposed by Lord Wills in another place, to create a national office to support bereaved families so that each family does not have to reinvent the wheel and go through all the learning needed to get ready for an inquest. That is...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend. There is a huge amount of unfinished business. These issues are present in so many of the injustices that we have seen, where there has been inappropriate contact between police and press. We await the conclusions of the Daniel Morgan panel, for instance, which might best illustrate some of these issues. That is true of other events as well....

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: I would certainly say so. I cannot understand why there is any doubt about this, given the clarity of the Prime Minister’s statements, which I have read out, and given that the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz), has just said that the promise was made not only to the victims but to senior parliamentarians. I do not...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: Well, there you go. That says it all really. The right hon. Member for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale) seems to be in a different mode these days. One wonders what deals have been done by the Government if they are preparing to unpick this agreement, and we will watch them very carefully. The Minister makes a fair point that there are ongoing investigations. I take his point that some of the...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: My hon. Friend puts it very well. That is what I have seen when working with the Hillsborough families, as have others when they have been fighting for justice. Those people are affected not just by the original trauma they suffered, but by how the system grinds them down afterwards, making them fight for everything, not giving them an inch and slowly draining the life out of them. How cruel...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: I have a lot of time for the Minister, as he knows, but such people are listening to this debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Diana Johnson) is not in her place, but if the victims of contaminated blood are listening to this debate, they will immediately recognise what I am saying. If the victims of organophosphates—sheep dip—poisoning are listening today,...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: That is a good point. It would be good enough if we got a cast-iron commitment. Ministers have reintroduced a doubt—in media briefings, they have said, “Oh, it probably won’t go ahead now”—and have muddied the waters. If they clarified that tonight, that would be good enough. If they said, “It will go ahead after the proper time has elapsed, given the criminal proceedings that are...

Policing and Crime Bill: Inspection of fire and rescue authorities (13 Jun 2016)

Andy Burnham: I would like to begin by agreeing with the Minister that some good progress has been made in the course of our deliberations on the Bill. There have been improvements, which we will discuss later, on tackling child sexual exploitation and on the police bail regime—particularly as it applies to those suspected of being involved in terrorism activity. As he has just indicated, there has also...


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