Written Question·Home Office·UIN 18095

Police Patrolling: Urban Areas

Tabled: 13 July 2026

Answered: 20 July 2026

Question

Layla Moran

Liberal Democrat — Oxford West and Abingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase police presence in town centres.

Answer

Sarah Jones

As part of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, the Government has committed to delivering 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing personnel by the end of this Parliament.By February 2026 we delivered 3,123 additional full-time equivalent (FTE) police o...

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