Military Police: Expenditure
(asked on 6th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on military police services each year since 2015.
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.