Treatment Of Victims Of Crime (EDM1259)

Treatment Of Victims Of Crime

EDM number 1259 in 2003-04, proposed by Harry Barnes on 24/05/2004.

That this House recognises that the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service are expected to act under the provisions of the Victims Charter in providing explanations to those claiming to be victims of crimes whenever it is decided that these bodies will not instigate criminal charges or will drop or reduce such charges; is deeply concerned that Government departments and agencies invariably avoid giving such explanations by claiming legal professional privilege under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information in similar cases where they are legislatively responsible for exercising the prosecuting role; believes that such blanket exemptions from acting on the provisions of the Victims Charter should be ended forthwith and that all of those who have been denied explanations for non-prosecutions by Government departments and agencies since the update of the Victims Charter in 1996 should retrospectively be supplied with these; and further believes that relevant Government amendments to the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 should urgently be placed before this House to ensure that this matter can be rectified in law.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Harry Barnes	24/05/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Proposed
Martin Smyth	25/05/2004	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Rudi Vis	25/05/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	25/05/2004	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	25/05/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	25/05/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Harry Cohen	25/05/2004	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	25/05/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	25/05/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Lynne Jones	25/05/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	25/05/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	26/05/2004	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Roy Beggs	26/05/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Nigel Dodds	26/05/2004	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Gregory Campbell	26/05/2004	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
David Marshall	26/05/2004	Glasgow, Shettleston	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	26/05/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	26/05/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Adam Price	26/05/2004	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Paul Tyler	27/05/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Etherington	27/05/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
David Drew	27/05/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Tony Lloyd	27/05/2004	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	27/05/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	27/05/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	27/05/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	27/05/2004	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	07/06/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Cox	07/06/2004	Tooting	Labour	Signed
Harold Best	07/06/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Paul Holmes	08/06/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Dean	08/06/2004	Burton	Labour	Signed
Adrian Bailey	08/06/2004	West Bromwich West	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Tony McWalter	09/06/2004	Hemel Hempstead	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	09/06/2004	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Alan Meale	09/06/2004	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Brian Cotter	14/06/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Anne Begg	15/06/2004	Aberdeen South	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	16/06/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tony Banks	16/06/2004	West Ham	Labour	Signed
Tony Clarke	22/07/2004	Northampton South	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	16/09/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	25/10/2004	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Terry Davis	Unknown			Withdrawn

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