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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

I am grateful for that. I believe that the hon. Member for Swansea West will be a member of the Committee, and such a matter is the sort of thing it may well wish to examine. We may not agree on the level of cuts that will take place—I am sure we will not—but we can look at ways to mitigate the effect on people, and we may be able to find agreement. For example, only yesterday, I had an e-mail from a constituent who had cleverly put in a freedom of information request and discovered that Gwent police had spent £35,000 or so on putting out leaflets telling people effectively what a good job they are doing. The leaflets were newsletters and the sort of thing that Members of Parliament used to put out—I plead guilty to that one as well. However, we have been told that we can no longer do that because times are hard. We might wish to ask whether the police authorities should be putting out leaflets telling everyone what a good job they are doing when times are hard, particularly as there are 43 police authorities across England and Wales.