Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Fiona Bruce and Caroline Nokes

Monday 1st April 2019 Commons Chamber

[Caroline Nokes]

The Government have made available £9 million of grant funding to charities and other organisations to support vulnerable people, including vulnerable adults in the care sector, through this process. We have already, through the test phase, been working closely with a number of local authorities, and there has been an extensive engagement process with the LGA and other local government bodies to make sure that we get this right.

[Fiona Bruce (Congleton) (Con)]

T5. Does my right hon. Friend agree that while stop-and-search is a vital tool in the fight to tackle serious violence, to be truly effective, police need to be empowered to use it in an intelligence-led way?