§ Mrs. EllmanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the publication of information concerning the fatal shooting of James Ashley in 1998. [22783]
§ Mr. DenhamI refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 19 July 2001,Official Report, column 344W. Subsequently the Police Authority considered the matter and concluded that it is not possible at this stage to disclose the investigation reports.
I have commissioned two other reports which will address matters relevant to this shooting:
a report from the Sussex Police Authority under section 43 of the Police Act 1996 on the events surrounding the shooting and the action taken by Sussex police to ensure that they have responded appropriatelya report from the Police Complaints Authority under section 79 of the Police Act 1996 to consider the lessons to be learned from investigations supervised by the Police Complaints Authority since January 1998 into incidents in which police shootings resulted in death or injury.