Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers have been allocated to London during the last 12 months.

We are increasing the number of police officers in England and Wales by 20,000 over the next three years.

The Metropolitan Police Service was allocated 1,369 additional officers in the first year of the police uplift which covers the period to the end of March 2021.

At 30 September 2020 the Metropolitan Police Service has already recruited

its year one allocation of 1,369 additional officers.