Schedule 6 - Amendments to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Police and Justice Bill
1:30 pm
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin, Conservative)
How confident is the Minister that those new bodies will be accountable to local authority overview and scrutiny committees, rather than just “answerable”—the word used in the explanation of the issue on the Home Office’s website? For example, often, a primary care trust has a political leadership, and the local authority, being a stakeholder in the same partnership, will, by definition, have some sort of political leadership. The overview and scrutiny committee also will have a political leadership. Therefore, there might be answerability, but will there be accountability?