Rural Crime and Public Services

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:02 pm on 6 June 2018.

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Photo of Chris Elmore Chris Elmore Opposition Whip (Commons) 4:02, 6 June 2018

As always, my hon. Friend is giving a very well-informed and impassioned speech. On this point about rural communities, does she agree that it is also very important that we think of rural communities not just as places such as Somerset, Devon or Cornwall, but as seats such as mine, former heavy industrial areas? For example, the Ogmore and Garw valleys in my constituency no longer have police stations, but what they do have now is high levels of rural crime. They are isolated and cut off because of deindustrialisation. That must be put into the mix of how we see rural crime moving forward.