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Olympics (Security)

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Rail Investment
Monday 16th July 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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It is not a reckless plan for police forces to look to ensure that they make the best use of their budgets, so that they can put as much money as possible not into back-office functions, but into getting police out on the streets.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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The Home Secretary should have a gold medal for the speed at which she has corrected this problem. Why exactly cannot the 20,000 people whom G4S has recruited be employed? Are people just saying that they are not going to go to work?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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There are a number of things, the first of which is the scheduling problems that G4S has had. Some individuals will now say, for a number of reasons, that they do not wish to take up the work. However, the problem was identified only in the past few days, leading to the decision by G4S last Wednesday, when it told us it could not meet its requirements.

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