Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill — Report (2nd Day) (Continued)

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:45 pm on 4 July 2011.

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Photo of Lord Beecham Lord Beecham Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government), Shadow Spokesperson (Health) 5:45, 4 July 2011

I have just looked up the clause to which the noble Baroness refers-Clause 11 on co-operative working. She is quite correct to say that Clause 11(1) refers to the "responsible authority". However, that subsection talks about the co-operation between the elected local policing body and the local authority as a responsible authority; it does not bring the local authority within the family of the other organisations in subsection (4) that are obliged to co-operate, which is why I suggested that they should be included there. In other words, this could be seen as a bilateral relationship instead of a multilateral relationship, which was the defect that my amendment sought to cure. Will the noble Baroness take it away and think about it further?