Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Cunningham Excerpts
Wednesday 25th November 2015

(8 years, 12 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jim Cunningham Portrait Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
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Q11. The Prime Minister very often tells us that the first duty of any Government is to protect the public. Will he give an undertaking to restore the cuts to the police and the emergency services to ensure that the public in this country are protected?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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This Government have a good record of protecting the public, not least because we protected counter-terrorism policing and we gave funding to the police that enabled them to help with the cut in crime of 31% since I became Prime Minister.