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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

My Lords, there is a long list of amendments because there are a lot of issues. I would have been considerably happier if we had been able to unpack this package somewhat. From listening to the Minister’s reply—she has been saddled with this, I accept—it seems to me that some of the provisions are straining to apply to London the model provided for the rest of England and Wales. That feels very awkward and very inappropriate. I cannot see that we will finish the debate about London tonight, so I think that we will have to come back to aspects of it. On delegation, at one point I referred to that as ““trickle-down””, but I think that the Minister’s reply vindicates that description. I have realised, a bit late in the day, that ““Delegatus non potest delegare””, as we all say—