Asylum: Crime
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional funding is provided to police forces that receive safeguarding disclosures from asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents prior to arrival.
Answered by Alex Norris
The government sets police budgets at the annual police funding settlement. The 2026–27 final police funding settlement provides up to £21.0 billion for the policing system in England and Wales. This is an increase of up to £1.4 billion compared with the 2025–26 settlement, representing a 6.9% cash increase and a 4.8% real terms increase.
Total funding to police forces will be up to £18.4 billion, an increase of up to £834 million compared to the 2025-26 police funding settlement. This equates to a 4.7% cash increase and a 2.7% real terms increase in funding.
Decisions on how funding and resources are utilised are an operational matter for Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), who are best placed to make resourcing decisions within their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.
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