Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1997.
Michael Howard
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
12:00,
23 January 1997
I regularly discuss with the Commissioner staffing levels and prospects for recruitment in the Metropolitan police. He assures me that the proposed settlement for the Metropolitan police for 1997–98 would enable him to increase officer strength to 27,400 during 1997.
