Oral Question·Home Office
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 17 March 2026Answered: 23 March 2026
Asked by
Peter Fortune
Conservative — Bromley and Biggin Hill
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
Sarah Jones
I think Boris Johnson closed a lot more front counters than Sadiq Khan has, but that is a different issue. We are putting more funding into frontline policing. We want police on our streets and in our neighbourhoods—not behind desks, as they were under the previous Government—and that is where the public want to see them.