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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

My Lords, what is now becoming clear is that political control is to be exercised over the budget by one person, the elected police and crime commissioner, without any effective corporate governance at all. That is the problem with the corporate sole: it is the same person. Of course, I understand that there is the entity of a corporate sole and the individual, but they are the same people. In a sense, the noble Baroness has said, ““We have rebalanced this because of concern that the chief constable has too much power over the budget in the terms of the original Bill””, but we are now transferring that to an elected party politician without any corporate governance safeguards whatsoever.