Title
Police and Justice Bill
5:45 pm
Nick Herbert (Shadow Minister (Police Reform), Home Affairs; Arundel and South Downs, Conservative)
Thank you, Mr. Pope. I read lots of concluding speeches from other Committees, and I understood it was usual for the Opposition to remind the Committee of those aspects of the Bill about which they were concerned and to which they would return. We will need to return to various matters, because a great deal of concern has been expressed outside the House, not least by the professional bodies involved—police officers and the Association of Chief Police Officers—about the extent of the provisions and the way they centralise power and reduce the discretion of the various bodies concerned. I look forward to that debate, but in the meantime I wish every Committee member a very good Easter.