Police Complaints Authority

HC Deb 20 May 1997 vol 294 c34W

Mr. Todd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what new appointments have been made to the Police Complaints Authority. [956]

Mr. Straw

Mrs. Linda Allan and Ms Lorna Whyte have accepted invitations to serve as Members of the Police Complaints Authority made in late 1996 by my predecessor as Secretary of State, the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard). Mrs. Allan previously served as Head of Networks and Faculty Support with the Royal College of General Practitioners. Ms Whyte was formerly a community relations consultant with the Home Office. They both took up their posts on 6 May. The term of the appointments is three years.