Kate Green
Main Page: Kate Green (Labour - Stretford and Urmston)(12 years, 9 months ago)
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Yasmin Qureshi
I agree with my right hon. Friend. Greater Manchester also faces the threat of possible terrorist attacks.
Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (Lab)
My hon. Friend mentioned the Trafford centre and the football and cricket grounds in my constituency, and we should add Trafford Park industrial estate. We therefore have a number of high-profile, high-risk sites, and it is important that they are protected and resourced. Does my hon. Friend agree, however, that if we can deploy resources only to those high-risk, high-profile sites, there will be no back-filling to other less risky sites, which will mean that smaller incidents will escalate and become larger and more dangerous?
Yasmin Qureshi
I entirely agree. As my hon. Friend eloquently put it, other areas will be given lower priority.