Written Question·Home Office·UIN 60995

Metropolitan Police: Staff

Tabled: 18 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Spending Review 2025 on the number of Metropolitan Police officers.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Paragraph 5.35 of the Spending Review document, published on 11 June, sets out the overall financial allocation for policing in England in Wales.As usual, more detail on force funding allocations will be set out in the police settlement later this year.