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The main issue for practitioners and the courts in dealing with major cross-border criminal activity is having a clear set of implementing provisions across the UK.
The intention in due course is to consider the need for new legislation on integrated emergency contingency planning to cover those activities that local authorities, police forces, fire brigades and others perform.
Our initial idea was that we might deal with it on 20 December, to get it out of the way, but we are not able to do that, so we are left with only one option.I consider the situation extremely unsatisfactory.
As a member of the Standards Committee, I know that the difficulty when a matter is referred to the Standards Committee is that a guy spends his time beavering away, returns with an inconclusive report and then the matter is sent back to us and we are told that no action can be taken because we cannot get to the bottom of things.We have been discussing whet...