Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

What steps his Department is taking to help tackle late payments for small businesses.

Tabled: 25 June 2026Answered: 2 July 2026

Asked by

Mr Connor Rand

LabourAltrincham and Sale West

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention (Dame Diana Johnson)

As has been said a number of times this afternoon, the neighbourhood policing guarantee means 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and specials back on our streets to keep us all safe, after the reduction in police officer numbers of, I think, over 20,000 by the Conservative party.