Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what neighbourhood policing grant allocations can be spent on.

The approach to delivery in 2025/26, which will be year 1 of a 4-year programme, is designed to deliver an initial increase to the neighbourhood policing workforce in a manner that is flexible, and can be adapted to the local context and varied crime demands.

In year one of the programme to ensure that funding effectively contributes to neighbourhood policing aims and is limited to expenditure that is critical for the programme, funding must be used for personnel in roles that fulfil neighbourhood policing functions (defined by CIPFA Category 1A), items that directly support them in their neighbourhood roles and Special Constables.