Question follow-through · 91365
West Midlands Combined Authority: Police and Crime Commissioners
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the readiness of the West Midlands Combined Authority to assume policing governance responsibilities from the Police and Crime Commissioner; and what es
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the readiness of the West Midlands Combined Authority to assume policing governance responsibilities from the Police and Crime Commissioner; and what es
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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26 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government has committed in its English Devolution White Paper to transfer policing functions to Mayors of Strategic Authorities wherever boundaries of the mayoral and policing areas align, by default. Subject to Royal Assent to provisions in the Engl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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