Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Simon Burns Excerpts
Monday 12th October 2015

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Daniel Kawczynski Portrait Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham) (Con)
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2. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of police and crime commissioners.

Simon Burns Portrait Sir Simon Burns (Chelmsford) (Con)
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5. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of police and crime commissioners.

Huw Merriman Portrait Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle) (Con)
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11. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of police and crime commissioners.

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Mike Penning Portrait Mike Penning
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My hon. Friend raises a very important point and I wish Mr Campion well in his bid to represent his community as a PCC. We will soon be introducing legislation that will allow more collaboration and more help to be brought to the police, fire and ambulance services—that is the sort of thing we would expect.

Simon Burns Portrait Sir Simon Burns
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Will my right hon. Friend enable PCCs to follow up complaints about policing made by the people they serve?

Mike Penning Portrait Mike Penning
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That is exactly what we would like them to be doing. All too often, complaints go all the way through the system when they could actually be dealt with locally.