Debates between Simon Hoare and Christopher Pincher during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Police Grant Report (England and Wales)

Debate between Simon Hoare and Christopher Pincher
Wednesday 10th February 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Christopher Pincher Portrait Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) (Con)
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May I briefly congratulate the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) on her election as Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee? None of us will miss the tsunami of paper to which we have all been subjected over the past few days, but I am sure we will all miss the poetry of the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner). It may not have been from Palgrave’s “Golden Treasury”, but it was certainly entertaining.

I am grateful to be called to speak in this important debate on the police grant and pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Delyn (Mr Hanson), a former Policing Minister, who is very experienced in these matters, although I do not agree with everything that he says. I am certainly not always right.