Clause 3 - Powers to require inspection and report
Police Reform Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
That was a long intervention—almost a speech. Suffice it to say that I do not agree with the Minister, for the reasons set out by my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton. I shall not repeat them, because the point has been sufficiently made. We shall not call for a Division on clause stand part, because we called for one on amendment No. 112, which was the really serious issue. I am prepared to drop the matter at this stage, but I wanted to flag it up because it will be relevant to debates on other clauses. We are seriously concerned about attempts to micro-manage, and this seems to be yet another example of the Government getting it wrong.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 3 ordered to stand part of the Bill.