HC Deb 24 July 2000 vol 354 cc453-4W
33. Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from police forces about the public safety radio Communications project. [130354]

Mr. Charles Clarke

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I have discussed the Public Safety Radio Communications Project with representatives of the Association of Chief Police Officers and with individual chief officers on several occasions. A number of forces have raised the question of affordability of the project. I refer the hon. Member, to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary's Statement on 19 July 2000, Official Report, columns 376–91.