Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase recruitment to Cleveland Police.

In October 2019 Home Office confirmed officer allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. The Home Office is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to support all forces deliver these allocations.

Cleveland will receive 72 officers in year one of the uplift. Cleveland Police will receive up to £143.3m in funding in 2020/21 an increase of up to £10.1m on 2019/20.

The recruitment of officers is an operational decision for Chief Constables working with their locally elected Police and Crime Commissioner.