Police: Pay

(asked on 22nd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the merits of funding the (a) long-term and (b) starting salaries of recently recruited police officers.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 29th September 2020

The police funding settlement for 2020/21 sets out the biggest increase in funding for the policing system since 2010.

The Government will provide a total police funding settlement of up to £15.2 billion in 2020/21, which is an increase of up to £1.1 billion compared to 2019/20. As part of this, police forces will receive £700 million to recruit up to 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021. This is the first year of a multi-year commitment. Funding for future years will be set out at the Spending Review.

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