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UPDATE: Save our pubs action plan
Matthew Barber Matthew Barber

UPDATE: Save our pubs action plan

How you can help by writing to your local councillors and supporting our campaign to removed the burden of business rates on local pubs and businesses.

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Home Office is underfunding neighbourhood police officers
Westminster, Crimefighters Matthew Barber Westminster, Crimefighters Matthew Barber

Home Office is underfunding neighbourhood police officers

Just days before the budget is set for Thames Valley Police, the Home Office has dropped another bombshell.

Not only did the funding announcement in December leave the Force £9m worse of that we expected based on the Government’s own numbers, the latest news looks set to cost a further £2m each year due to underfunding from the Home Office.

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Major operation to fight serious and organised crime across Thames Valley
Crimefighters Matthew Barber Crimefighters Matthew Barber

Major operation to fight serious and organised crime across Thames Valley

Thames Valley Police has started the year as it means to go on with a major operation last week across its patch targeting serious and organised criminals. 

Hundreds of officers and staff came together to disrupt organised crime groups in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire who are linked to high-value motor vehicle thefts, robberies, business burglaries and other serious offences to make money illegally. 

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Lack of Home Office funding puts more pressure on local Council Tax payers
Matthew Barber Matthew Barber

Lack of Home Office funding puts more pressure on local Council Tax payers

Yesterday I wrote to the Home Secretary regarding the announcement of Government funding for policing made just before Christmas.

The figures published to Parliament in December will leave Thames Valley Police £9m worse off than we expected when preparing the budget! Thos estimates were not based on optimism, but on the Government's own Comprehensive Spending Review carried out last summer.

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