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Northern Ireland Policing Board (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

I will happily answer that question, because it is important. The nine will be chosen from the existing independents—I understand that currently there are 11. I cannot say how the mechanism for that will work; I shall take some advice on that and perhaps other noble Lords may wish to speak. In other words, the nine will be from the existing members. No new members will be introduced. How those 11 members arrived in their positions is, in a way, history. It may weigh heavily on us, anyway, but the fact of the matter is that the nine members of the transitional board will be chosen from the existing members.