Charles Walker welcomes Government focus on child and adolescent mental health but asks what is being done about out-of-area transfers where children are found beds 200 or 300 miles away from home.
Speaking in a debate on the Policing and Crime Bill, Charles Walker urges the Government to back a Lords Amendment that would enable families of a person who dies in police custody to obtain parity of funding with the police for legal representation at the subsequent coroner’s inquiry.
Charles Walker leads a Parliamentary debate taking the BBC to task for its one-sided treatment of Louis Smith following the release of a video in which the gymnast is seen to make a joke about Islamic prayer practices and calls on the BBC to apologise, noting that the Corporation has a history of humour aimed at Christianity.
Charles Walker questions the failure of the Home Office to promote and defend freedom of expression, citing lack of support for gymnast Louis Smith who has been subjected to a manhunt and vilification on social media and suspended by British Gymnastics after a video was released showing the athlete making fun of Islam.
Charles Walker criticises the treatment of gymnast Louis Smith who has been hounded on social media and suspended by British Gymnastics after a video was released showing the athlete making fun of Islam, when if it had been Christianity the country would have simply, and rightly, turned the other cheek.
Charles Walker tables an Urgent Question calling on the Government to act on the House of Commons Procedure Committee’s proposals to enhance the credibility of Friday debates on Private Members’ Bills and to put an end to legislation put forward by Back Benchers being blocked or ˜talked out’ by the Government.