Part of Crime and Policing Bill - Committee (12th Day) – in the House of Lords at 12:15 pm on 22 January 2026.
Lord Hogan-Howe
Crossbench
12:15,
22 January 2026
It is certainly a first for me.
I thank the Minister for his reply and other people for their comments. I thought I might make only a couple of points in response. I indicated that although the Amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Bailey, suggests a mandatory limit, there may be difficulties with that. I wonder whether the Government, might consider three things in their review, which the Minister mentioned. First, they could set an expectation so that, for example, cases should be completed within 12 months unless, for example, the director-general of the IOPC or some arbiter concludes otherwise. Secondly, I raised the sequential nature of the decision-making. That compound effect gives a longer time than I regard as necessary.
I am trying to work out now whether I should let the noble Lord, Lord Bailey, speak—
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