HC Deb 10 April 2000 vol 348 cc68-9W
28. Mr. David Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to reform the governance of non-territorial police forces. [116815]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The then Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton, North and Bellshill (Dr. Reid) announced in his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Mr. Shaw) on 31 July 1998,Official Report, columns 637-38W, our intention to seek to establish, when a suitable legislative opportunity arises, an independent national police authority for the British Transport Police.

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