Lords repeat of Commons statement on the Police Uplift Programme - May 2

Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:30

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Sharpe of Epsom) (Con) My Lords, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place: “With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a Statement about the Government’s police uplift programme. Today is a significant day for policing. We can officially announce that our unprecedented officer recruitment campaign has met its target. We said we would recruit an additional 20,000 officers, and we have. We have...Request free trial