Police: Employers' Contributions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding she has allocated to frontline policing to mitigate changes to employer National Insurance contributions.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The 2025-26 final police funding settlement provides funding of up to £19.6 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an overall increase of up to £1.2 billion when compared to the 2024-25 and represents a 6.4% cash increase and 3.9% real terms increase in funding.
This includes an additional £230.3 million of funding for territorial police forces to cover the costs of the increases to National Insurance Contributions.
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