§ Miss HoeyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answers of 11 December,Official Report, columns 266–67, on Vauxhall police division and Grafton square and 13 January, Official Report, column 46, on police accommodation in Lambeth, what is the relationship between the strategic review of the provision of police accommodation and the on-going review of the long-term police accommodation needs. [12375]
§ Mr. MacleanThe review of the long-term police accommodation needs refers to a five-yearly rolling review of the Metropolitan police's operational building strategy. The strategy is due to be updated by September 1997. Each area contributes to the review of the operational building strategy. The on-going strategic review into police accommodation needs in Lambeth will inform 5 Area's submission to the review process for the operational building strategy.