Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of police officers in northern Wales.

The Government is committed to delivering an extra 20,000 police officers over the next three years.

The Home Office has confirmed the allocations for every force in England and Wales in the first year of the uplift. 6,000 additional officers have been allocated to forces across England and Wales by the end of March 2021.

North Wales Police has been allocated 62 additional officers in year one of the uplift. The force had recruited 23 additional officers by the end of March 2020.

To support this recruitment drive, North Wales Police will receive a funding increase this year of £10.4 million.