Question follow-through · 34568
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on financial deficits within police constabularies in England and Wales.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on financial deficits within police constabularies in England and Wales.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.6 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1.1 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement and represents a 6% cash terms incr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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