Adjournment debate on Mr. John Haase and Mr. Paul Bennett, and the Royal prerogative.

Adjournment debate on Mr. John Haase and Mr. Paul Bennett, and the Royal prerogative.

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle) not only on securing the debate but on the extensive and assiduous way in which he has pursued this matter for at least 12 years. Anyone who has stood where I stand now during that time must be...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle) not only on securing the debate but on the extensive and assiduous way in which he has pursued this matter for at least 12 years. Anyone who has stood where I stand now during that time must be...

It is a pleasure, Madam Deputy Speaker, to be in the Chamber under your strict invigilation. I know that you will make sure that we stick to the subject in this amply timed debate, as it has turned out. It is a rather arcane subject for most people, but it...

It is a pleasure, Madam Deputy Speaker, to be in the Chamber under your strict invigilation. I know that you will make sure that we stick to the subject in this amply timed debate, as it has turned out. It is a rather arcane subject for most people, but it...

Adjournment debate on the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

Adjournment debate on the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 23 February 2004, 418 c250W, on royal pardons, whether the figure of one free pardon in 1996 refers to (a) both people in the case of John Haase and Paul Bennett and (b) one of...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 23 February 2004, 418 c250W, on royal pardons, whether the figure of one free pardon in 1996 refers to (a) both people in the case of John Haase and Paul Bennett and (b) one of...

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what investigations are planned into the activities of (a) John Haase, (b) Paul Bennett and (c) their handlers; when (a) Paul Bennett and (b) John Haase ceased to be registered informants; what reviews have been made of the convictions contingent upon the evidence...

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what investigations are planned into the activities of (a) John Haase, (b) Paul Bennett and (c) their handlers; when (a) Paul Bennett and (b) John Haase ceased to be registered informants; what reviews have been made of the convictions contingent upon the evidence...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the decision to release John Haase and Paul Bennett from jail; and what protection has been provided from public funds to them following their convictions for heroin smuggling and release from jail; and what...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the decision to release John Haase and Paul Bennett from jail; and what protection has been provided from public funds to them following their convictions for heroin smuggling and release from jail; and what...