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Council Tax Capping (Surrey)

I congratulate my hon. Friend on calling this incredibly important debate on an issue about which people in Surrey feel extremely strongly. He mentioned neighbourhood policing, but does he agree that however frustrated people in Surrey feel about the many failures of Government policy on law and order, neighbourhood policing is perhaps the one area in which they feel that there have been huge improvements in recent years? It would be an enormous tragedy if rate capping and the loss of 50 police posts led to cuts in the one area of policy that seems to have been working.