Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to allocate additional funding to the police in (a) Staffordshire and (b) Stoke-on-Trent.

The 2020/21 police funding settlement set out the biggest increase in funding for policing since 2010 with Staffordshire receiving an increase of £14.5m, provided they utilise their full precept flexibility.

Police forces will receive an additional £700 million for the recruitment of 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021 and Staffordshire has been allocated 90 officers for the first year, meaning more police on the streets to help tackle violent crime and keep our communities safe.