Home Office written question – answered at on 8 November 2016.
Crispin Blunt
Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on Chief Constables replying to letters from Members of Parliament.
Brandon Lewis
Minister of State (Home Office) (Policing and the Fire Service)
Policy on responding to correspondence, including letters from Members of Parliament, is a matter for individual forces. Concerns about these policies, or correspondence itself, should be raised with the force in question or with the directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner.
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