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If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 17 March 2026Answered: 23 March 2026

Asked by

Peter Fortune

ConservativeBromley 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.