Debates between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Rosena Allin-Khan during the 2017-2019 Parliament

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Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Rosena Allin-Khan
Wednesday 13th March 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rosena Allin-Khan Portrait Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab)
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By 2021, this Government will have cut £1 billion from the Metropolitan police budget. That is why I wrote the Chancellor a letter, signed by every single London Labour MP, asking for more funding to tackle the rise in violent crime. Can the Chancellor confirm how much additional funding has been allocated to the London Met?

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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I cannot. The £100 million that we have announced today will be for the police as a whole, and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will engage with police chiefs. If the hon. Lady is concerned, as she obviously is, about policing in London, may I suggest that she gets in touch with the Labour Mayor of London and asks him to get off his backside and do something about it?

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