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Welsh Police Force Merger Payouts

EDM number 2887 in 2005-06, proposed by Lembit Opik on 31/10/2006.

That this House applauds the four Welsh police authorities for their conduct over the police force mergers; is deeply disappointed at the cap of £100,000 that the Home Office has placed on payouts to police authorities; believes that the Welsh police force merger proposal was ill-prepared with a deeply unrealistic timetable for Welsh police authorities to consider such a radical structural change; is concerned that senior Welsh police chiefs and their staff were forced to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and many hours of police time preparing responses to the merger proposals; is further concerned that this could have had a detrimental effect on policing in Wales; is further concerned that the whole affair has ultimately cost the Welsh police authorities around £500,000; believes that this money should have been invested in frontline policing in Wales and not spent on consultation costs; is further concerned that some of the costs incurred may have to be met by Welsh council taxpayers; and strongly urges the Government to pay back, in full, all costs incurred by Welsh police forces related to the police force merger proposal.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lembit 31/10/2006MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratProposed
Roger Williams31/10/2006Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George01/11/2006St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Williams02/11/2006CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Sarah Teather06/11/2006Brent EastLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Featherstone06/11/2006Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSeconded
Simon Hughes06/11/2006North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd06/11/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew Stunell06/11/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming06/11/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies06/11/2006Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
David Jones07/11/2006Clwyd WestConservativeSigned

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