Steve McCabe
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(10 years, 2 months ago)
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Lynne Featherstone
The national crime agency for banking fraud has been set up and people are, of course, coming forward to report crime when they previously did not.
Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)
16. What assessment she has made of recent turnout in the police and crime commissioners by-elections.
The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning)
In the west midlands, 200,000 people voted in the by-election for the PCC and in South Yorkshire it was 150,000. None of those would have had a vote if we had carried on with the old unaccountable police authorities—not one.
Steve McCabe
I understand that the rather low turnout for this quite unpopular experiment in policing has cost the taxpayer in excess of £5.3 million. Is that what the Government mean by “value for money”?
Mike Penning
I am very surprised by an Opposition and a Labour party that have PCCs out there such as Vera Baird—[Interruption.] Is the hon. Gentleman decrying the work that Vera Baird does? That is interesting—we have a Labour party that decries its own PCCs.