Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Richard Foord Excerpts
Monday 23rd March 2026

(1 day, 8 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sarah Jones Portrait Sarah Jones
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As well as increasing the number of police officers on our streets and in our neighbourhoods, we are introducing respect orders to tackle antisocial behaviour. We are seeing shop theft charges going up in our town centres, and we are taking a targeted approach in policing, so that we really tackle our town centres. We take antisocial behaviour very seriously. We will continue to ensure that we make our streets safer—and they are becoming safer. They will be even safer when we have 13,000 additional officers on our streets.

Richard Foord Portrait Richard Foord (Honiton and Sidmouth) (LD)
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T6. Residents in Devon want visible community policing. The new towns taskforce recommended a new settlement called Marlcombe in east Devon. When new towns are built, how are additional police officers allocated to the area?