Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Ruth Edwards Excerpts
Monday 13th July 2020

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Peter Aldous Portrait Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)
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What steps her Department is taking to increase police funding.

Ruth Edwards Portrait Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe) (Con)
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What steps her Department is taking to increase police funding.

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Ruth Edwards Portrait Ruth Edwards
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Will the Minister join me in praising Nottinghamshire police, which has acted so quickly to recruit more officers that it is 12 months ahead of the Government’s recruitment target and was the first force to introduce police officer degree apprenticeships? Does he agree with me that forces such as Nottinghamshire, which are leading the way and which have also increased their diversity, should be first in line for any additional Government funding?

Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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It is very heartening to see that one of my hon. Friend’s priorities as a new Member in this House is to stand with and defend her local police, and she is quite right to do so. I join her in offering our thanks and praise to them for the work they have done. In fact, I was able to do so in person because I was on the phone with her chief constable just this morning. She is quite right that Nottinghamshire is a forward-looking police force, and we will be supporting it in its endeavours to innovate and challenge crime in the months to come.