Question follow-through · 60995
Metropolitan Police: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Spending Review 2025 on the number of Metropolitan Police officers.
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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, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Spending Review 2025 on the number of Metropolitan Police officers.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2025
Answer published
Paragraph 5.35 of the Spending Review document, published on 11 June, sets out the overall financial allocation for policing in England in Wales.As usual, more detail on force funding allocations will be set out in the police settlement later this year.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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