Oral Answers to Questions

Nadhim Zahawi Excerpts

Monday 27th June 2011 Commons Chamber

[Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough) (Con)]

7. What estimate she has made of the potential additional time available for police officers arising from planned reductions in administrative burdens.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

11. What estimate she has made of the potential additional time available for police officers arising from planned reductions in administrative burdens.

[Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell) (Con)]

19. What estimate she has made of the potential additional time available for police officers arising from planned reductions in administrative burdens.

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[Nick Herbert]

I believe that elected police and crime commissioners will have a very strong focus on reducing the burden of bureaucracy and administration in their forces precisely because they will feel pressure from their electorate to ensure that resources are directed to the front line. We are also placing police and crime commissioners under a duty to collaborate and I am sure that they will work together to drive out unnecessary costs from their forces.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Warwickshire police in my constituency are pushing forward with innovative changes to its policing model to allow more police to be out on the streets doing what they are supposed to be doing. It is also implementing new technology to allow officers to file paperwork without having to return to their desks. Could the Home Secretary or the Minister tell us what progress has been made in implementing similar changes in other—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are grateful. We have got it.