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Debate on Wednesday, 4 February 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Coaker. The answering member was David Ruffley.

Police Grant Report

Debate on a motion to approve the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) for 2009-10 (HC 148 2008-09) on provisional police funding for the three-year period 2008-09 to 2010-11 . Agreed to on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
487 c850-92 
Session
2008-09
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Keith Vaz | 487 c850;487 c848 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way so early in his speech. May I place on record my thanks...
Lord Coaker | 487 c850;487 c848 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend, who chairs the Home Affairs Committee, for his remarks. He will know t...
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Lord Coaker | 487 c850;487 c848 (Link to this contribution) I will give way after I have made a little more progress. Government grant for police services will...
Simon Hughes | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) We are all grateful to the police and to the Minister for his commitment. London—the Metropolitan po...
Lord Coaker | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) The Metropolitan Police Service, in common with other police forces across the country, has received...
Lembit Opik | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) I regard the Minister as being open to feedback and very proactive in his role. There is concern in ...
Lord Coaker | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) We are trying to be fair to Welsh police forces. The hon. Gentleman will know that Welsh police forc...
Lord Coaker | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) May I just say that, within reason, I will give way to every hon. Member who asks, but I have to tak...
Lord Coaker | 487 c852;487 c850 (Link to this contribution) Along with a number of other hon. Members from across the House, my hon. Friend took part in the deb...
Paul Truswell | 487 c852;487 c850 (Link to this contribution) West Yorkshire has benefited considerably from the additional police funding made available by this ...
Lord Coaker | 487 c852-3;487 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a reasonable point about Lincolnshire. He will know that I visited the area...
Paddy Tipping | 487 c853;487 c851 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know from his direct personal experience that crime is falling in Nottinghamshir...
Lord Coaker | 487 c852;487 c850 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point about his local force. From a national perspective, we have ...
Mark Simmonds | 487 c852;487 c850 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware, from meetings that he has had, of the genuine concern of the people of L...
Lord Coaker | 487 c853-4;487 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her comments. In this debate, I have tried to avoid saying—apart ...
Simon Hughes | 487 c854;487 c852 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes a fair point about the need for balance in the national allocation. He knows that...
Lord Coaker | 487 c853;487 c851 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and neighbour for those comments. I know that he and other colleagues in Nott...
Annette Brooke | 487 c853;487 c851 (Link to this contribution) Dorset police authority is a high-performing and efficient force, but it predicts that it will have ...
Lord Coaker | 487 c854-7;487 c852-5 (Link to this contribution) Population is one of the factors that are taken into account, and the exact measurement of populatio...
David Ruffley | 487 c862-4;487 c860-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I have heard her talk in many forums, not least fairly recently on R...
Keith Vaz | 487 c864-6;487 c862-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Ruffley), who is shadow p...
Patrick Mercer | 487 c866;487 c864 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee. As he will remember, the supermarket sp...
Keith Vaz | 487 c866-8;487 c864-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I am sure that the Minister will have taken note a...
David Ruffley | 487 c857-61;487 c855-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his comprehensive speech. I want to begin my remarks on behalf of Her Majes...
Fiona Mactaggart | 487 c861;487 c859 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an issue that he knows affects my constituency significantly. The inter-ce...
Speaker | 487 c868;487 c866 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Davis, I think that the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) was giving way....
Patrick Mercer | 487 c868;487 c866 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am most grateful to both right hon. Gentlemen. The right hon. Me...
Lord Coaker | 487 c871;487 c869 (Link to this contribution) To nail this point about mobile information devices, I say to the hon. Gentleman that all Home Offic...
Paul Robert Holmes | 487 c871-2;487 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that clarification. It would be churlish to say better late than never, but...
Paul Robert Holmes | 487 c870-1;487 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) This police grant statement comes in the second year of a three-year settlement, and in that sense i...
Simon Hughes | 487 c873;487 c871 (Link to this contribution) That is a really big issue for boroughs such as mine as well as for rural areas, as my hon. Friend s...
Simon Hughes | 487 c872-3;487 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) It strikes me that given the pressures that my hon. Friend has outlined, and the fact that a lot of ...
Paul Robert Holmes | 487 c873;487 c871 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and over recent years a lot of authorities have brought more civilians in to release police ...
Rob Wilson | 487 c881-2;487 c879-80 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention. I am absolutely delighted to hear him repeat that this i...
Lord Coaker | 487 c881;487 c879 (Link to this contribution) I have not got the figures for the south-east allowances with me at the moment. However, I did say t...
Rob Wilson | 487 c880-1;487 c878-9 (Link to this contribution) This is a welcome opportunity to debate the police grant settlement, which forms about half of the p...
Paul Robert Holmes | 487 c873-6;487 c871-4 (Link to this contribution) That is a very welcome commitment, but it is difficult to see how the Government can react quickly e...
Roger Williams | 487 c878-9;487 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate, albeit only briefly. I commend the Minister on the f...
Stephen Crabb | 487 c876-8;487 c874-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in the debate on the police funding settlement this...
Roger Williams | 487 c879-80;487 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Both of us are making the point that investment in capital works—su...
Stephen Crabb | 487 c879;487 c877 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point about custody suites. We have a new all-singing, all...
Lord Coaker | 487 c891;487 c889 (Link to this contribution) I want to carry on—I hope the hon. Gentleman does not mind. The point of today's debate is that it ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 487 c884-7;487 c882-5 (Link to this contribution) I express my sincere apologies for not being present at the commencement of the debate—[Interruption...
Rob Wilson | 487 c882-4;487 c880-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I know that Slough has had many problems dealing with extra...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 487 c882;487 c880 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a strong and compelling case. Does he agree that the problem with the extra...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 487 c890-1;487 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) My point was that the Migration Impacts Forum was established 18 months ago, but the information ava...
Lord Coaker | 487 c890;487 c888 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, but I have only 10 minutes and I wish to make some other points.
Lord Coaker | 487 c890;487 c888 (Link to this contribution) I thank all hon. Members who contributed to this debate for the informed and interesting way in whic...
Lord Coaker | 487 c892;487 c890 (Link to this contribution) To provide the detail that my right hon. Friend requires, over and above the legal opinion that I ha...
Keith Vaz | 487 c892;487 c890 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Minister for telling us that information. How much taxpayers' money was sp...
Lord Coaker | 487 c850;487 c848 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move," That the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) for 2009–10 (House of Commons Paper...
Lord Coaker | 487 c891;487 c889 (Link to this contribution) It is also incumbent on Ministers to act responsibly. What I have said to the hon. Gentleman is that...
Martin Salter | 487 c851;487 c849 (Link to this contribution) The Minister responded to the demands of the Metropolitan police force, but he will be aware that it...
David Davis | 487 c868;487 c866 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
Keith Vaz | 487 c868-9;487 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) This House is expert on these matters, so I am not going to challenge the hon. Gentleman's judgment ...
James Brokenshire | 487 c887-90;487 c885-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting and informed debate. Several Members passionately expressed their feeli...
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Crime prevention Crime Alcoholic drinks Bureaucracy Finance ICT Immigration Police Recruitment Metropolitan Police Rural areas Cambridgeshire Constabulary Dyfed-Powys Police Thames Valley Police
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