§ Mr. MerchantTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement as police authority for the Metropolitan police on the recent report by Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary on Metropolitan police area 1. [29689]
§ Mr. MacleanYes. We have today placed in the Library a note of the recommendations from the report, together with the Commissioner's responses and the police authority responses, which takes into account the advice that my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and I have received from the Metropolitan police committee.