Question follow-through · 18095
Police Patrolling: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase police presence in town centres.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase police presence in town centres.
15 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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20 Jul 2026
Answer published
As part of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, the Government has committed to delivering 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing personnel by the end of this Parliament.By February 2026 we delivered 3,123 additional full-time equivalent (FTE) police o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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