Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the effectiveness of neighbourhood policing in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire.

Neighbourhood policing is the bedrock of the British policing model. Every community deserves visible, pro-active and accessible neighbourhood policing with officers tackling the issues that matter to them.

As part of the neighbourhood policing guarantee, every neighbourhood across England and Wales now has named, contactable officers dedicated to addressing the issues facing their communities, including in Lincolnshire. Police forces also must make sure that neighbourhood policing teams spend the majority of their time providing visible patrols and engaging with local people and businesses.

£200 million has also been made available in 2025/26 to help forces kickstart the growth in neighbourhood policing personnel towards 13,000 by the end of this Parliament. Of this, £1,663,470 has been allocated to support neighbourhood policing in Lincolnshire.