Clause 79 - Expenses of members of police authorities etc.
Police Reform Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Mr John Denham (Minister of State (Police, Courts and Drugs), Home Office; Southampton, Itchen, Labour)
It involves slightly different matters of substance. As the hon. Gentleman will know, the changes in the PNB regulations were part of a wider attempt to remove at least some of the multiplicity of individual allowances, leads and payments in the police pay system. It is a sensible approach to the expenses of police authority members, but there is no need for us to make detailed regulations nationally in relation to allowances that have previously been deregulated. We are now doing the same for
expenses, which has generally been welcomed by police authorities.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 79 ordered to stand part of the Bill.