Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of conducting another Royal Commission on Policing.

We recognise that crime is changing and that the future will present new challenges to policing. We are taking action to ensure that the police have the resources and tools they need to respond to the evolving profile of crime while also continuing to get the basics right and deliver safer streets for the public. This includes recruiting 20,000 additional police officers by March 2023 and increasing funding for policing by up to £1.1 billion this year, which includes over £350 million to provide police with the tools and skills they need to meet the technological challenges of the future.

A Royal Commission into policing would be a substantial undertaking that would distract policing from their core mission- cutting crime, making the safer streets the public deserve, and delivering justice and high-quality outcomes for victims.