Question follow-through · 50036
Police: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department has provided to rural police forces for the procurement of emergency equipment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department has provided to rural police forces for the procurement of emergency equipment.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold the requested information.Decisions around procuring this type of equipment is a matter for operationally independent Chief Constables, Police and Crime Commissioners or their Mayoral equivalents, to be taken in line with the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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