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Our capital allocation was enhanced by £13 million, which is a welcome improvement, although our capital allocation has been a challenge over a number of years and remains low compared with other police services in the UK.
On that point, there has been a vast improvement in careers information and the information that pupils and students get via guidance and pastoral teachers, compared with the situation decades ago, but there are still some inevitable conflicts.
If you were to look at the public money that is being spent per head of population or per passenger carried and compare it with near neighbours such as Norway, you would find that it is a shockingly high figure.
I feel that they can be justified, but how does their cost-effectiveness and their frugalness or otherwise compare to some other diplomatic actors that perhaps found their entertaining and architectural traditions more on the Congress of Vienna?
I appreciate that the air weapons component of the data that you have given does not have comparable data going that far back. What has been the trend in numbers for the firearms and shotgun certificates during the most recent decade?
In that context, it is the UK versus the European Union—a relationship in which the UK is overwhelmingly weak, because of the comparative importance of the two parties.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2020
The updated guidance, which was published on 12 October, provides advice on ways to support and enhance those visits. It remains the recommendation that essential visits are safely and generously supported by care homes.