Written Question·Home Office·UIN 98726

Police: Finance

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are any plans to ensure that future funding formulas for the police take account of (a) seasonality and (b) rurality.

Answer

Sarah Jones
This Government is committed to ensuring that policing has the resources it needs and the allocation of funding to police forces remains an important consideration.The Chancellor has announced a real terms increase in police spending power over the next t...

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