Crime: Local Authority Funding - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords am 3:06 pm ar 13 Mehefin 2018.

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Photo of Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Green 3:06, 13 Mehefin 2018

My Lords, under this Government, the police have lost over 20,000 officers and violent crime rose last year by 18%. Can the noble Baroness seriously stand in front of us and say that the reduction in police officers has not contributed to a rise in crime?