West Midlands Combined Authority: Police and Crime Commissioners
Commons · Question 91365 · 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 assessment she has made of the adequacy of the readiness of the West Midlands Combined Authority to assume policing governance responsibilities from the Police and Crime Commissioner; and what es
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...