Khan says there's a 'massive back hole' in the Met Police's finances

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned that the Met Police is facing a "massive black hole" in its funding.He highlighted how a quarter of the Met Police budget comes from City Hall, up from 19 per cent in 2016.He told the committee: "Because the gap has got bigger and bigger and bigger from the Government we've tried to fill that massive black hole... but we simply can't fill the massive hole (created) over 14

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00:00The Commissioner referred to, roughly speaking, a quarter of the Met Police budget comes from City Hall.

00:06There used to be 19% in 2016, but because the gaps got bigger and bigger and bigger from the government,

00:12we've tried to fill that massive black hole from City Hall, but we simply can't fill the massive hole over 14 years.

00:19We've more than doubled the funding from City Hall to the Met Police Service,

00:21but the Commissioner set out some of the options and the Commissioner's team have been very open with City Hall

00:28on basically a line-by-line basis, some of the options the Commissioner's talked about,

00:33and so that's what's led us to where we are today.

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