Question follow-through · 128776
Robbery: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police resources to tackle robbery in urban areas.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police resources to tackle robbery in urban areas.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government is determined that robust action should be taken to prevent robbery from happening and ensure swift justice for perpetrators.The central aim of our police reform agenda is to protect and revitalise neighbourhood policing. We are lifting nat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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