Written questions

Police and Crime Commissioners: Mayor of the West Midlands

Commons · Question 91364 · Tabled 17 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for transferring Police and Crime Commissioner functions to the Mayor of the West Midlands.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 26 Nov 2025

The Government has committed in its English Devolution White Paper to transfer policing functions to Mayors of Strategic Authorities wherever boundaries of the mayoral and policing areas align, by default. Subject to Royal Assent to provisions in the Engl...