a former leader of westminster city council had her own concerns. via reduction units come with too many conditions. it is local authorities like mine, westminster city council, that knows its young people and estates and in those streets and i would urge the minister to make sure that the mayor of london and other policing crime commissioners do trust their local authorities an awful lot more with the funding. mr speaker, there speaks the voice of experience. from westminster council. and the minister himself a former westminster councillor said she was quite right. a newly elected labour mp has accused the government of trying to "criminalise gypsies to hide their own failures". speaking for the first time in the parallel debating chamber of westminster hall, zarah sultana's comments came as a conservative led a debate on gypsies, travellers and the planning system. philip hollobone claimed that the government's planning policy "simply isn't working" and that "far from reducing tensions, the present planning system was inflaming them because effec