To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to assess the social impact of the planned Crime and Policing Bill on those groups likely to be affected by it. (244951)

Impact assessments have been produced for the necessary provisions within the Policing and Crime Bill and are available at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/ia-police-crime-bill-08/

and also at:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/closed/airportpolicing/revisedimpactassessmet.pdf

Equality impact assessments for relevant provisions in the Bill will be published before Second Reading in the House of Commons.