Police reform and social responsibility Bill

I am just going to make a little more progress. Let me deal with costs, and then I will come back to the hon. Gentleman. The shadow Home Secretary says that the reform will cost ““well over £100 million.”” No, it will not. She reaches that figure by counting in the running costs of police authorities—money that, apparently, should not be spent. So, this is Labour's latest policy: not just no elections for those who hold the police to account, but no one to hold them to account at all—because, apparently, police authorities would go as well. The only additional cost of the Government's reforms is the cost of elections. That will normally be £50 million every four years, £12.5 million a year on average, or 0.1% of what is spent on police forces.