Police and Crime Commissioners: Expenditure
(asked on 13th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was their total expenditure on police and crime commissioners for financial year 2024–25 and for each of the preceding 10 financial years.
The Home Office has published accredited official statistics on police funding for England and Wales, which includes funding to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) for the period 2015-2026. The total funding for PCCs up to the financial year 2025-26 (including government funding and police precept) can be found below:
Financial Year | Total Nominal PCC funding (£ million) |
2015-16 | 10,927 |
2016-17 | 10,998 |
2017-18 | 11,042 |
2018-19 | 11,323 |
2019-20 | 12,166 |
2020-21* | 13,285 |
2021-22 | 13,753 |
2022-23** | 14,625 |
2023-24** | 15,435 |
2024-25** | 16,564 |
2025-26** | 17,685 |
Footnotes
*In 2020-21 the Home Office reimbursed all additional personal protective equipment (PPE) purchased between 27 February 2020 and 27 July 2020 and launched an Income Loss Recovery Scheme for forces to recover relevant lost income on expected sales, fees and charges against their 2020-21 budgets as a result of the pandemic. This support was provided in-year, in addition to the police funding settlement for 2020-21.
** Total funding in the table above includes in year funding for pay awards which would be different to what was announced at the time of the police funding settlements.
Due to changes in the structure of police funding and policing, it is difficult to make direct comparisons between current police funding figures prior to the financial year 2015-16. However, each year the Home Office produces a police grant report which is published and voted on by Parliament and contains grant funding allocations for the following year to be paid out under the Police Act 1996. A copy of the police grant report for the year 2014-15 is available online and in the House.