Written Question·Attorney General·UIN 47199

Police: Bills

Tabled: 23 April 2025
Answered: 28 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Valerie Vaz

LabourWalsall and Bloxwich

To ask the Solicitor General, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making her advice to Cabinet colleagues on the legal implications of bills available to the police.

Answer

Lucy Rigby
The fact that the Law Officers advise on Bills through the government collective agreement process before they are introduced to Parliament is public knowledge. However, on specific matters, the fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised,...

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