Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to is Department's press release of 11 June 2018 on the launch of the National Detective Training Programme, from which Department budget the £350,000 will be allocated.

This Government has granted Police Now £350,000 in seed funding to develop a detective recruitment and training programme. This is being allocated from the Crime, Policing and Fire Directorate budget. Police Now has been allocated a further £2.8m in funding in 2018/19.