HC Deb 26 July 1984 vol 64 cc772-3W
Mr. David Young

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any guidance is issued to the police concerning the prosecution of drivers driving vehicles at speed through picket lines.

Mr. Hurd

No special guidance on the bringing of prosecutions in the circumstances envisaged has been issued to chief officers of police. The general guidance on the criteria for prosecutions published by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General in March 1983, a copy of which is in the Library of the House, would apply to such circumstances as to others.