Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support the improvement of Greater Manchester Police.

The Home Office, alongside its policing partners, continues to provide Greater Manchester Police with the support it requires through HMICFRS’s Policing Performance Oversight Group. Ministers are committed to supporting the force’s improvement and are paying close attention to its progress.

Greater Manchester Police’s funding will increase by up to £35.1m in 2021/22.

As at December 2020, the force has also recruited 266 additional officers through our Police Uplift Programme, with a further allocation of 325 officers to be recruited by March 2022. In addition, there is a year 2 uplift allocation of 16 officers to the force to support growth in Regional Organised Crime Units.