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Police Grant

It would be churlish of me not to recognise the changes that the Government have made to the rural policing grant as a result of the lobbying of the Minister's Department. Police forces such as Dyfed-Powys are well advanced in areas such as the civilianisation of the custody service, and they have already made savings in that way. They are therefore finding it more and more difficult to make further savings. Will the Minister give some recognition to those forces that have made a great deal of progress and that are now finding it difficult to make further savings?