Question follow-through · 98915

Police

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether future police force boundaries will be aligned with regional mayoral boundaries.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
15 Dec 2025
Answer
6 Jan 2026 · 27 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether future police force boundaries will be aligned with regional mayoral boundaries.

  2. 15 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jan 2026

    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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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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