Proceeding contribution from Lord Harper (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 January 2009. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Police Funding (Gloucestershire).
Police Funding (Gloucestershire)
The Minister is quite right that Gloucestershire has more police officers, but as I made clear in my remarks, that increase has largely been funded from council tax. Before I was elected to the House, there was a 51 per cent. increase in the police precept in a single year. That was a significant contribution to funding the increase in police officers. If it was up to the national grant alone, there would be fewer police officers in Gloucestershire now than there were 11 years ago.
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- 2008-09
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- Westminster Hall
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- Council tax Finance Police Local government finance Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Constabulary
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