Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, my noble friend referred to the National Police Chiefs’ Council producing guidance. This is not a statutory body, and one of the issues I have with the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, is that the guidance and positioning in relation to parliamentary scrutiny needs to be very clear because, as has been pointed out, it is a very important matter. When I hear that a tertiary body which is actually a limited company—it is not even a quango—is going to be involved, my confidence is not increased. I hope that, if we are going to talk further about this, we are going to make sure that a proper degree of parliamentary scrutiny occurs both if the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, pushed his amendment and if my noble friend wanted to proceed along the lines he described to the Committee just now.