Draft Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Controlled Activity and Prescribed Criteria) Regulations 2012. Draft Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012. Draft Police and Crime Panels (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2012. Lords motions to approve. Agreed to on question (formal).

Draft Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Controlled Activity and Prescribed Criteria) Regulations 2012. Draft Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012. Draft Police and Crime Panels (Modification of Functions) Regulations...

My Lords, I will come to the regulations in a moment. First, I will set the context and talk about police and crime panels more generally. The introduction of directly elected police and crime commissioners is the most significant policing reform in a generation. It was set out in the...

My Lords, I will come to the regulations in a moment. First, I will set the context and talk about police and crime panels more generally. The introduction of directly elected police and crime commissioners is the most significant policing reform in a generation. It was set out in the...

My Lords, the purpose of the regulations is to stop a defaulting local authority from preventing the making of panel arrangements. This is understandable and should be supported. However, there are two issues of detail that I would appreciate the Minister’s clarification of in order to avoid doubt.

First, the Secretary...

My Lords, the purpose of the regulations is to stop a defaulting local authority from preventing the making of panel arrangements. This is understandable and should be supported. However, there are two issues of detail that I would appreciate the Minister’s clarification of in order to avoid doubt.

First, the Secretary...

My Lords, the Minister has explained the reasons for the order. I will be interested to hear the response to the two points that have been raised. On the second one, where reference is made to the wording,

“In the case of a multi-authority police area, all the relevant local authorities...

My Lords, the Minister has explained the reasons for the order. I will be interested to hear the response to the two points that have been raised. On the second one, where reference is made to the wording,

“In the case of a multi-authority police area, all the relevant local authorities...

My Lords, a number of questions have been put to me. First, I shall deal with those asked by my noble friend Lord Shipley. I can assure

him that, yes, the Secretary of State will take note of views from other local authorities and will want to take account of...

My Lords, a number of questions have been put to me. First, I shall deal with those asked by my noble friend Lord Shipley. I can assure

him that, yes, the Secretary of State will take note of views from other local authorities and will want to take account of...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister can clarify his answer to the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, about political balance. Is he talking about the political balance of the entire police force area or of the defaulting authority? As I understand the construction of the police and crime panels, there is one...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister can clarify his answer to the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, about political balance. Is he talking about the political balance of the entire police force area or of the defaulting authority? As I understand the construction of the police and crime panels, there is one...

My Lords, we are trying to achieve some sort of balance across the whole area of panels covering a police force. I can think of some areas where every local authority is Labour or every local authority is Conservative. That does not mean that one would want every member of...

My Lords, we are trying to achieve some sort of balance across the whole area of panels covering a police force. I can think of some areas where every local authority is Labour or every local authority is Conservative. That does not mean that one would want every member of...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that clarification. I am not sure it completely helps me. In a two-tier area, with which he is familiar, you will have a county council that will be elected on a specific date. You will then have district councils either elected in...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that clarification. I am not sure it completely helps me. In a two-tier area, with which he is familiar, you will have a county council that will be elected on a specific date. You will then have district councils either elected in...

I do not want to be overprescriptive on these matters, particularly as every authority varies quite dramatically. I will use my own county, Cumbria, as an example because I happen to know it well. Cumbria County Council coincides with the police authority and so it is quite an easy one...

I do not want to be overprescriptive on these matters, particularly as every authority varies quite dramatically. I will use my own county, Cumbria, as an example because I happen to know it well. Cumbria County Council coincides with the police authority and so it is quite an easy one...

Can I just explain further my concern about political balance? There are existing committees, joint boards and so on that cross council boundaries and there are clear rules that apply to political balance in those cases. I hope that in the regulation it will be made absolutely clear that one-party...

Can I just explain further my concern about political balance? There are existing committees, joint boards and so on that cross council boundaries and there are clear rules that apply to political balance in those cases. I hope that in the regulation it will be made absolutely clear that one-party...

That is what we are saying in the regulations. As far is practical, we want to make sure that there is this cross-party control. This does not happen in Cumbria, but even if all six councils happened to be Labour-controlled, we would not envisage that all the members of the...

That is what we are saying in the regulations. As far is practical, we want to make sure that there is this cross-party control. This does not happen in Cumbria, but even if all six councils happened to be Labour-controlled, we would not envisage that all the members of the...

Motion to consider agreed to on question

Motion to consider agreed to on question

Motions to approve agreed to on question

Motions to approve agreed to on question

Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012. Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Authority to Carry) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Panels (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2012. Lords motions that the draft regulations and orders be referred to a Grand Committee. Agreed to on question (formal).

Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Functions of Returning Officers) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012. Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Authority to Carry) Regulations 2012. Draft Police and Crime Panels (Modification of Functions) Regulations 2012. Lords motions that the draft regulations and orders...

Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.