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Police: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding will be allocated to roll out hotspot policing in rural areas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 May 2025
Target answer date
14 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding will be allocated to roll out hotspot policing in rural areas.

  2. 14 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    This Government has awarded £66.3m in 2025/26 to all 43 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales for the Hot Spot Action Fund. This funding is for high-visibility patrolling in the areas with the highest densities (‘hotspots’) of knife c...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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