Question follow-through · 60988
Police: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allocate rural crime teams in each police force.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allocate rural crime teams in each police force.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
This financial year the Home Office will be providing the first funding since 2023 for the National Rural Crime Unit (NRCU) as well as continuing funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU). The funding boost of over £800,000 will help the units t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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