Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

The Minister says that this is intended to be a strong requirement. Clause 80, which he referred to, says, "““must, from time to time, issue a document””." What I am trying to clarify is: how can we see what the impact of that strong requirement is unless we know what the Government's intentions are for the document's contents? That is not asking to have the wording of the strategic policing requirement written into the Bill. The Bill already says that there will be such a document, but none of us have seen one. The Minister has talked about consultations but as far as I am aware—I wait to be corrected—last week no full-touch document had been circulated for comments, despite the expectations set out in here.