Question follow-through · 90929
Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase police recruitment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase police recruitment.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
For 2025/26, we are providing a total of up to £376.8 million specifically to support officer headcount levels as set out in the Police Funding Settlement. This includes £270.1m which is administered through a ringfenced grant. Police and Crime Commission...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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