Police reform and social responsibility Bill

He has confirmed to 2013. I do not know how long the hon. Gentleman wants him to confirm. On the point made by the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward), I would simply quote his party's manifesto back at him. Page 72 of the Lib Dem manifesto—I do not know whether he helped to write it—stated:"““We will give local people a real say over their police force through the direct election of police authorities””." Clearly, there is a problem. All the bodies that he named are bureaucracies. He just reeled off half a dozen bureaucratic bodies that no one has heard of, that no one knows how to contact and that do not deliver what local people want. His own party's manifesto proposes a highly visible individual who is accountable at the ballot box, whom people know how to contact and who is not next to the male choir on the website. How can that not be an improvement?