M

Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 March 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

However, more needs doing, hence my amendment, which focuses on the need to crack what can be the difficult nature of crimes involving politicians and others in Parliament and Whitehall. Such cases often have a foreign angle. But even when domestic, the nature of MPs working both here and in their constituencies means that they often span multiple police forces. Such cases frequently require specialist skills and can involve rarer types of criminal offences. That is without getting into the well-reported difficulty of compiling sufficient evidence to see a successful route from charge through prosecution to conviction.

About Hansard

Hansard is the official verbatim record of proceedings in the UK Parliament. Every word spoken in the Commons and Lords is recorded and published — this page is a single contribution from that record.

Partner sites