Written Question·Home Office·UIN 104901

Policing and Crime Boards

Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

David Simmonds

ConservativeRuislip, Northwood and Pinner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2025, to Question 96551, on Police: accountability, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding district-level licensing authorities in tw

Answer

Sarah Jones
The Government intends to legislate as soon as Parliamentary time allows to create Policing and Crime Boards to replace Police and Crime Commissioners where it is not possible for policing functions to be held by a Strategic Authority Mayor. These changes...

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