Urgent Question on Undercover Policing: 26 March 2015
26 March 2015 (updated on 26 March 2015)
Minister of State at the Home Office and for the Ministry of Justice, Mike Penning, responded to an urgent question asked by Peter Hain, Labour MP for Neath, on Undercover Policing on Thursday 26 March 2015 in the House of Commons.
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About Urgent Questions
At times MPs may want to put an urgent question to a Minister. If a matter of public importance has arisen, which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, they may apply to the Speaker to put forward such a question.
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If the Speaker agrees, the question will be asked after that day’s Question Time.
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