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Police merger and funding plans spells bad news for council tax payers

12.12.00pm GMT Tue 7th Feb 2006

Lynne Featherstone and police

Lynne Featherstone MP and Police

Lynne Featherstone MP, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman, responding to the debate in the House of Commons today on Police grants, said:

"The Government are increasingly adding to the workload of the police but failing to provide extra money from Whitehall. This leaves local Council Tax payers to pick up the bill.

"Coupled with the cost of the Home Office's plans to merge police forces in England and Wales, people will be expected to fork out even more council tax while having less of a say in how their local police force is run.

"This is completely unsustainable situation."

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