Coroners and Justice Bill
2:59 pm
Richard Thomas: Mark and I are not draftsmen; we put forward broad themes. I was a little surprised when I saw mention in the Bill of securing a relevant policy objective. We are very clear that there need to be rationales under those three broad headings—law enforcement and public protection, improving public services and research and statistical analysis. I have not come here this afternoon with specific drafting ideas. Perhaps one could work around that, or around some sort of public interest justification, but a rationale based purely on securing a governmental policy objective seems too wide.