Question follow-through · 100616
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support the financial sustainability of police forces.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Police: Finance · 23 Feb 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support the financial sustainability of police forces.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to ensuring that policing has the resources it needs. In December 2025, we published the provisional police funding settlement for 2026-27, which proposes funding of up to £18.3 billion for territorial police forces. This is a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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