Police Reform White Paper

Debate between Judith Cummins and Mohammad Yasin

Monday 26th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

To ask a nice short question, with a nice short answer, I call Mohammad Yasin.

[Mohammad Yasin (Bedford) (Lab)]

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the Government’s reform agenda in support of our mission for safer streets. In Bedfordshire, Operations Boson and Costello—tackling guns, gangs and organised drugs crime—have driven major arrests and a 15% fall in antisocial behaviour in Bedford town centre, backed by £7.3 million in special grants. Will the Home Secretary commit to maintaining these grants or to integrating them into core police funding to ensure that effective, evidence-based, local crime reduction programmes continue to protect our communities?