Question follow-through · 96352
Neighbourhood Policing: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister’s comment that You will see 3,000 neighbourhood police officers on your streets by March in his speech on 1st December 2025, what recent progress has she made in d
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister’s comment that You will see 3,000 neighbourhood police officers on your streets by March in his speech on 1st December 2025, what recent progress has she made in d
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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9 Dec 2025
Answer published
We have made £200 million available in 2025/26 to support the first steps towards delivering 13,000 more neighbourhood policing personnel across England and Wales by the end of this parliament, including up to 3000 additional neighbourhood officers by the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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