My right hon. Friend is making the point that the previous Home Secretary would have fought his corner for the police and Home Office budgets. In the spending review, the Home Secretary did not exactly lead the police chiefs up Downing street, as the Secretary of State for Defence did with the defence chiefs. We heard nothing—not a squeak. The Home Secretary calls what we ended up with a fair settlement, but it is a deeply unfair settlement, compared with that for schools, health and defence, that hits the police disproportionately with spending cuts. Police chiefs around the country ask me, ““Where was the Home Secretary?””
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Ed Balls
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 December 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill.
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