Schedule 2 - Amendments to the Police Act 1996
Police and Justice Bill
1:15 pm
Michael Fabricant (Whip, Whips; Lichfield, Conservative)
Does my hon. Friend understand my scepticism when, for example, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport talks about the BBC. There is a direct analogy between the position of the trustees of the BBC and the police authorities, in that under the new arrangement the trustees are supposed to have local accountability, but do not include any longer, as the governors do, representatives from Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales. How can we be convinced that, in this instance, there will be continued accountability in larger police authority areas, as my hon. Friend said earlier?