To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Staffordshire and (b) Tamworth were in receipt of housing benefit of more than £400 a month in the latest period for which figures are available.
Last week, Staffordshire police authority announced the appointment of its first full-time chief executive, with a salary of £85,000. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the people of Staffordshire would rather have more influence over policing priorities than see the appointment of another unelected, unaccountable and expensive bureaucrat?