Police: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65011 on Police: Finance, what estimate she has made of the total monetary value of council tax receipts from the police precept in England in (a) 2024-25 and (b) each subsequent year of the Spending Review, on which the increase in police spending power was calculated.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The published total council tax receipts for policing 2024-25 and 2025-26 can be found below (£m):
| 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
Total value | 5,650.0 | 6,057.6 |
Year-on-year increases | 341.4 | 407.7 |
As set out in the Spending Review (SR) 2025 document, published 11 June 2025, the Phase 2 settlement provides an average 1.7% real terms increase per year in police spending power. Over the SR period, police spending power is projected to increase by an average 2.3% per year in real terms.
Police spending power includes projected spending from additional income, including estimated funding from the police council tax precept.
However, this remains subject to final decision on precept levels and individual police and crime commissioner decisions. The final police precept level and core government funding will be set out in the annual police funding settlement in the usual way.
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