Urgent Question on police funding formula calculations: 9 November 2015
9 November 2015 (updated on 9 November 2015)
The Minister of State for the Home Office, Mike Penning, responded to an urgent question asked by Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East in the House of Commons on police funding formula calculation errors.
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