Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide an update on her Department’s work to ensure all relevant governance structures are appropriately established when the post of Police and Crime Commissioner is abolished in 2028.

The Home Office is working with policing and local government through a range of transition working groups to design and implement future governance arrangements to replace Police and Crime Commissioners from May 2028. We remain committed to developing a system of police governance that maintains consistently high standards of democratic oversight, which is joined up with other local services and that the public can trust.

We will legislate for these changes as part of the second session Police Reform Bill, which we will bring forward in due course.