Neighbourhood Policing: Finance
Commons · Question 49736 · Tabled 1 May 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 12 May 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that neighbourhood policing funding allocations are proportionate to the (a) population size and (b) specific urban needs of each police force area.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 12 May 2025
The Government has provided £200 million for 2025/26 to kickstart the recruitment of 13,000 additional neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs by the end of the Parliament. Force-level allocations have been determined using the Police Funding Formula.The ...