Question follow-through · 83978
Police: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allocate additional funding to support police forces in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allocate additional funding to support police forces in rural areas.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to giving police the resources they need to tackle crime and the allocation of funding to police forces in England and Wales remains an important consideration. The Chancellor has announced a real terms increase in police spend...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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