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West Midlands Combined Authority: Police and Crime Commissioners

Commons · Question 91365 · Tabled 17 Nov 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

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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...