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Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 9 February 2026.

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Photo of Sarah Jones Sarah Jones The Minister of State, Home Department

The licence to practice is being introduced to ensure that all officers, at whatever stage in their career, are getting the right support and the training that they need to do the jobs that we demand of them. We have said explicitly that we will design this with policing, so that we can get this right, but it is about supporting the police to do the jobs that we all need them to do.