Metropolitan Police Committee (Hansard, 14 July 1999)

§ Lord Williams of Mostyn

The annual report of the Metropolitan Police Committee for 1998–99 and the Annual Plan of the Committee for 1999–2000 are being published today.

The report gives information about the advice and other work which the committee has undertaken for the past financial year. The plan sets out the work which the committee aims to undertake on tasks which we have agreed that it will undertake, again to support me in my role as Police Authority in the current financial year. A major task is to help prepare for the Metropolitan Police Authority, planned for July next year.

Copies of the report and plan are being placed in the Libraries of both Houses tonight. The chairman of the committee is writing with copies to a wide range of interested people and organisations, including all Members of London constituencies, all Members of the European Parliament whose constituencies include London areas, all London boroughs, all police community consultative groups and all lay visitor panels.

We are grateful to Sir John Quinten, the chairman of the committee, and all his colleagues for their advice and other assistance to us, and look forward in particular to working with them on the transition to the new arrangements for the governance of London's policing.