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Metropolitan Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase public trust in the Metropolitan Police Service.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase public trust in the Metropolitan Police Service.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 14 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner’s ‘New Met for London’ plan sets out the force’s work to improve its performance. The Mayor for London established the London Policing Board to hold the Commissioner to account for delivery of the plan. H...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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