Question follow-through · 61798
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase funding for local policing forces.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase funding for local policing forces.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 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 £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 settlement.Total funding to police forces will...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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