Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding provision for the police.

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 £1.3 billion compared with the 2025–26 settlement, representing a 6.7% cash increase and a 4.4% real terms increase. Total funding to police forces will be up to £18.4 billion, an increase of up to £796 million compared to the 2025-26 police funding settlement. This equates to a 4.5% cash increase and a 2.3% real terms increase in funding.