Police Funding: Cambridgeshire

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:00 pm on 6 January 2025.

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Photo of Steve Barclay Steve Barclay Chair, Finance Committee (Commons), Chair, Finance Committee (Commons) 10:00, 6 January 2025

My hon. Friend highlights an important point about rural crime. He has powerfully set out how Cambridgeshire is underfunded per capita compared with other forces, and he has explained how that is more acute in areas such as Fenland and rural constituencies. Can he also see the irony in the Prime Minister launching his housing strategy in Cambridge, and in the fact that the Government say they want to see much more housing in Cambridgeshire, yet their per capita funding discriminates against Cambridgeshire as an area?