Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Diana Johnson and Claire Young

Monday 31st March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Claire Young (Thornbury and Yate) (LD)]

In the south-west last year, 77 police community support officers were taken off our streets; my local Avon and Somerset force accounted for 60 of them. It said that the change was a direct result of lack of funding. Will the Home Secretary agree to raise the matter with the Chancellor as a matter of urgency, so that we can put more money back into frontline policing?

[Dame Diana Johnson]

An extra £1.2 billion is going into policing for the financial year starting tomorrow. Obviously, past Governments must account for their failure to fund the police adequately.