Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve standards of policing in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and b) Staffordshire.

The Government committed to rebuilding confidence in policing as part of its safe streets mission and has been clear on its determination to raise standards in policing.

This will include introducing mandatory professional standards on vetting and improving police suspension provisions. Further detail will be set out in due course.