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Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, the three noble Lords who have spoken on this group have made some strong points, but what is missing from the debate is an independent balance between security, the economic case and safety. Of course, safety and security are paramount but no one in the appeal mechanism—which ends up with the Secretary of State—represents the economic side; only the security side is represented. I am not expecting my noble friend to answer now—it is a wacky idea I had when I was listening to the other contributions—but I wonder whether the CAA has a role to play in this. It is independent and has an economic regulation role—it happens in other industries—and it could well, in addition to the ideas put forward by my noble friend Lord Rosser, which I fully support, give comfort to the operators if someone was looking at the independent economic regulation along with other matters. I look forward to my noble friend’s response.