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Commons · Question 98915 · Tabled 10 Dec 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 6 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Max Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether future police force boundaries will be aligned with regional mayoral boundaries.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 6 Jan 2026

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...