Jamie Reed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-10-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to set out in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review that police budgets in Cumbria should not be reduced.

Greg Hands

Police reform is working and crime is down by more than a quarter since 2010, according to the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales.

As with other spending decisions, no decisions have been taken on police funding beyond 2015/16. Future funding levels will be subject to the outcome of the Spending Review later this year.