Responding to the Home Secretary's launch of a consultation paper of the future of the policing and the introduction of directly elected police and crime commissioners, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on her to ensure that these new commissioners do not create a paid bureaucracy around them but are instead assisted by unpaid advisory boards.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con): Will my right hon. Friend assure the House that these commissioners will not have a new paid bureaucracy created around them? Instead, might they be assisted by an unpaid advisory board?

Mrs May: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that positive suggestion, which I am happy to consider.

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