Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the equality of availability of shared policing resources across all relevant police forces.

We recognise that demand on the police is changing and becoming more complex, and have made clear that the issue of the funding formula for police grant will be looked at again in the context of the next Spending Review. It is right first to consider what the overall envelope of funding to the police should be, before determining how it should be distributed.