Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's news story £200 million boost to transform neighbourhood policing, published on 31 January 2025, whether additional funding will be allocated to community policing in Heywood and Middleton North constituency.

The Government has committed to restoring neighbourhood policing through the delivery of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This includes new putting 13,000 additional police officers, PCSOs and Special Constables on the beat in neighbourhoods up and down the country. Every part of the country needs to benefit from this pledge including Heywood and Middleton North constituency.

Details of each force’s allocation of the neighbourhood policing grant for 2025-26 were announced at the final police funding settlement on 30 January.