Schedule 2 - Amendments to the Police Act 1996
Police and Justice Bill
10:30 am
Nick Herbert (Shadow Minister (Police Reform), Home Affairs; Arundel and South Downs, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 133, in schedule 2, page 67, line 5, at end insert—
‘Requirement to conduct cost benefit analysis of alterations 28In section 32 (power to alter police areas by order), after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(3A)Before exercising his power under this section the Secretary of State shall commission from an independent body a cost benefit analysis, including the financial costs and benefits of the proposed alterations.
(3B)The Secretary of State shall publish the cost benefit analysis commissioned under subsection (3A).
(3C)The Secretary of State shall not exercise his power under this section unless the cost benefit analysis conducted under subsection (3A) above concludes that the benefits of the proposed alteration significantly outweigh the costs.
(3D)In this section “independent body” means a body which is wholly separate from central Government, police forces or police authorities.”’