Military Police: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total amount of public funding allocated to military police services has been in each of the last five financial years.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones
The information requested is shown below.
Where available, costs for the three Service Police forces for each Financial Year (FY) since 2015 are shown in the folloing tables.
Royal Navy:
FY | 18/19 | 19/20 | 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 | 23/24 | 24/25 | Total |
£million | 10,449,702 | 11,276,904 | 10,827,528 | 11,888,603 | 13,028,538 | 11,775,218 | 11,879,058 | 81,125,550 |
British Army:
FY | 15/16 | 16/17 | 17/18 | 18/19 | 19/20 | 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 | 23/24 | 24/25 | Total |
£million | 94,700,216 | 96,560,166 | 90,692,797 | 92,815,978 | 95,970,488 | 91,402,781 | 93,365,275 | 91,749,549 | 84,196,422 | 89,592,304 | 921,045,976 |
Royal Air Force:
FY | 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 | 23/24 | 24/25 | Total |
£million | 75.880 | 77.427 | 83.278 | 87.565 | 93.556 | 417.706 |
Notes:
Under UK Financial Regulations the Ministry of Defence is not obliged to hold financial data for more than seven years.
Changes to the budgetary arrangements used by the Services over time preclude the provision of data for some earlier years.
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