Extract from
Commons motion to consider the draft Law Enforcement and Security
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
The Minister for Policing and the Fire Service (Mr Nick
Hurd):...Overall, the making of the instrument will
provide legal and operational certainty to the public sector,
including our law enforcement and criminal justice partners across
the UK, such as the National Crime Agency and our police
and prosecution services. Although it remains the Government’s
position that exiting with a deal is in the UK’s best interests,
the instrument makes important changes to ensure readiness on exit
day in a no-deal scenario...
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Extract from
Westminster Hall debate on The Future of
DfID
The Minister of State, Department for International
Development (Harriett Baldwin):...The hon. Member for
Harrow West (Gareth Thomas) also raised the issue of corruption,
which is an example of where cross-Government working is so
important, so that we can work with the National Crime Agency to tackle some of
the financial flows and corruption that flow from some developing
countries where we are spending overseas development assistance,
through the UK courts and UK financial system. It is a good
example of where we need to work across government.
Members discussed the fact that some other Departments spend
overseas development assistance. Of course they do, for a range
of things, whether that is trade, development, the work of
the National Crime Agency, the work on the
environment and plastics through the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, or the work that we do on tackling
climate change, which needs to be joined-up across government.
There was a wide outbreak of consensus on that...
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