Written Question·Home Office·UIN 49736

Neighbourhood Policing: Finance

Tabled: 1 May 2025

Answered: 12 May 2025

Question

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

Dame Diana Johnson

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 ...

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