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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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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  1. 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

  2. 19 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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