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Police: Finance

Asked by Liz Saville RobertsPlaid CymruHome OfficeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 81909

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consideration she has given to reviewing the funding formula for policing.

Answered by Sarah Jones

This Government is committed to ensuring that policing has the resources it needs and the allocation of funding to police forces remains an important consideration.

The Chancellor has announced a real terms increase in police spending power over the next three years. As with previous years, decisions on police force funding allocations for 2026-27 will be set out at the forthcoming police funding settlement.

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