Question follow-through · 8175

Police: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to monitor the adequacy of policing in city centres.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
14 Oct 2024
Answer
18 Oct 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to monitor the adequacy of policing in city centres.

  2. 14 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, which will include restoring patrols to town centres.This will also involve the addition of thousands more ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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