Rural Crime and Public Services

Debate between Kemi Badenoch and James Cartlidge

Wednesday 6th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden) (Con)]

rose—

[James Cartlidge]

I will take one last intervention, Madam Deputy Speaker, because you will be pleased to know that I will then be concluding.

[Mrs Badenoch]

Does my hon. Friend agree that many of our constituents have requested the ability to pay more specifically for local policing? Constituents have written to me to say that if the Treasury could not fund it, they would happily pay extra.

[James Cartlidge]

Absolutely. I will finish by saying that the local funding formula means that funding is transparent—people will know that the money will be spent in their county. We should still look at the national formula, but the model of elected police and crime commissioners being responsible for the money raised locally in a clear and transparent fashion is the right one, and we should use it to get more officers on the beat, providing greater security and comfort to our constituents.