Question follow-through · 54719
Special Constables: Incentives
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce a tax-free annual bonus to help improve recruitment and retention of special police constables.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce a tax-free annual bonus to help improve recruitment and retention of special police constables.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
As part of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, we are committed to increasing the number of special constables across England and Wales.To support this commitment, we are exploring a range of measures to improve the recruitment and retention of special ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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