Home Department written question – answered at on 16 January 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2005, Official Report, column 427W, on appeals (foreign evidence), if he will take steps to include the Criminal Cases Review Commission as an investigative body that could raise a letter of request to another European jurisdiction under section 9(2) of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003.
We have agreed in principle that we will seek to amend the Crime (International Co-operation) Act to allow the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to issue letters of request for release of information to another European jurisdiction as soon as a suitable legislative vehicle becomes available.
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