Law and Order

HC Deb 01 July 1993 vol 227 cc578-9W

15. Mr. Lewis

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proposals he has for reviewing law and order policies as they relate to Northern Ireland.

Sir Patrick Mayhew

The emergency provisions are regularly considered by the House in the light of reports by an independent reviewer. Proposals which flowed from a wide-ranging review of other aspects of criminal justice policy were published in the discussion paper "Crime and the Community" in March; we shall consider carefully the public response to the paper. We shall also want to consider the implications for Northern Ireland of the recommendations that are to be made for England and Wales by the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.