Schedule 1 - Powers of the Secretary of State in relation to NCIS and NCS
Police Reform Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
Mr George Osborne (Tatton, Conservative)
When the clause was debated in the other place, the noble Lord Rooker said that he understood the particular concerns about it. He said:
''It probably requires more clarity and precision in the trigger mechanism which is used before such a clause would operate.''—[Official Report, House of Lords, 5 March 2002; Vol. 632, c. 165.]
The Government have amended the process but not the trigger mechanism, which remains as vague as the Minister just spelt out.