Oral Answers to Questions

Daniel Zeichner Excerpts

Tuesday 3rd November 2020 Commons Chamber

[Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate) (Lab)]

What steps he is taking to help ensure access to justice.

[Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge) (Lab)]

What steps he is taking to help ensure access to justice.

[Navendu Mishra (Stockport) (Lab)]

What steps he is taking to help ensure access to justice.

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[Daniel Zeichner]

We know that too often the courts are clogged up partly because too little has been done to minimise crime in the first place, which is why it is astonishing that in Cambridgeshire the number of police community support officers is to be halved, particularly at a time when they have a key role to play in covid compliance. Will the Minister join me in condemning those cuts and demanding that they be withdrawn?

[Alex Chalk]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, but I hope he will welcome the fact that this Government are recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers. It is those officers who will crack down on crime and ensure that people who rob innocents and cause violence end up getting their just deserts.