Member

Amendment 26 is not a bureaucratic nightmare; this report will help us to build that relationship and will help us in Parliament to be able to understand how that would move forward. It is designed to bridge the gap between assurances of co-operation and operational results on the ground. It is a necessary mechanism for parliamentary accountability given the frail harness which was provided by the previous Government. As noted in Committee, reliance solely on the word of Ministers or the discretion of operational leaders is not sufficient when addressing matters of such high public salience, which I think everyone in this Chamber agrees this is. So we need Parliament to have the duty to receive data and to show us the work that has been done to smash the gangs.