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Business of the House

The Leader of the House has described police restructuring as a long process. I have to tell him that it certainly does not look like that to the police forces and police authorities being restructured, because the decisions that they are being invited to take by 23 December do not include the status quo. May I reinforce calls for a debate on a substantive motion on 19 December, where the Government at least attempt to make the case for change in the House and to review the options presented to police authorities and forces up and down the country?