§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the members of the Police Complaints Board with their ages, qualifications, retirement dates and reasons for their appointment.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe members of the Police Complaints Board are listed below, with their ages and dates of expiry of appointments. There are no specific qualifications for membership of the board; appointments are made, by the Prime Minister, on an individual basis in the light of factors such as experience, background, capacity for the202W kind of work undertaken by the board, and the need for members to command the confidence of both the police and the public. Members are appointed in a personal capacity and not as representatives of particular groups, but the aim is to reflect as wide a representation of interests as possible.
Age Date of expiry of appointment Sir Cyril Philips (chairman) 68 January 1984 Sir George Ogden, CBE, DL (deputy chairman) 67 December 1982 Sir James Waddell, CB (deputy chairman) 66 December 1982 Mr. Colin Gilbraith, MVO 44 December 1981 Mr. Donald G. Haffenden 62 December 1982 Mr. G. E. Desmond Halahan, CBE 69 December 1982 Sir Frederick Hayday, CBE 68 December 1982 Mrs. Jane Kellock, JP 55 December 1982 Sir Bernard Ledwidge, KCMG 65 December 1982 Sir Roy Marshall, CBE 60 December 1981 Mr. John D. B. Richardson, MC 61 December 1981 Dr. James O. Robinson 49 December 1981 Mr. Hugh Sanders, OBE 64 December 1981 Mrs. Joanna Staughton, JP 42 December 1982 Mrs. Jean E. S. Williams 49 December 1981 Mrs. Rosemary L. Wolff 55 December 1982
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to change the composition, methods and powers of the Police Complaints Board; and if he will make a statement on its activities.
§ Mr. WhitelawSection 8 of the Police Act 1976 requires the Police Complaints Board to make annual reports to the Home Secretary on the discharge of their functions and also to keep under review the working of the relevant provisions of the Act and report to the Home Secretary thereon at least once in every three years.
The board's report for 1980 is to be published in April. Its first triennial review report was published in July 1980 (Cmnd. 7966). I have no immediate plans to recommend changes in the composition of the board. On the question of other changes, I would refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) on 5 March and to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Petersfield (Mr. Mates), on 18 March.—[Vol. 1000, c. 157; Vol. 1, c. 99.]