Question follow-through · 100929
Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent police recruitment and deployment changes on neighbourhood crime levels.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2026 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent police recruitment and deployment changes on neighbourhood crime levels.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government published a performance framework in April 2025 which sets out how forces will be held to account. It includes measures on crime and other key indicators, including growth of neighbourhood policing.The framework outlines to forces and the p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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