§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will meet the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to discuss means to ensure that police consultative groups continue to receive up-to-date information in the detail that has been available in the Metropolitan police divisional reports;
(2) if he will take steps to ensure that copies of each Metropolitan Police division's annual management report are made available to the relevant police consultative groups;
(3) what consultation was undertaken with police consultative committees and others prior to the Metropolitan police replacing divisional reports with the document entitled "Policing."
§ Mr. Peter LloydI understand from the Commissioner that a different format is to be adopted for the divisional reports available to police consultative groups this year, with the aim of making them more accessible and readable and thus reach a wider audience. The change is being made after consultation with every consultative group in the Metropolitan area, and a pilot project in Wandsworth. Any information previously contained in a divisional report which is absent from this year's report will be available on request from the division concerned. The divisional management report is an internal working document concerned with the management of the division itself, and there is no intention to make it available publicly.