Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many additional (1) neighbourhood police officers, (2) PCSOs, and (3) special constables, have been recruited since the launch of the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee on 4 December 2024, broken down by territorial police force.

£200 million has been made available in 2025-26 to support the first steps towards delivering 13,000 more neighbourhood policing personnel across England and Wales by the end of this Parliament, including up to 3,000 additional neighbourhood officers by the end of March 2026.

Our approach to delivery in 2025-26 has been 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. This means the precise workforce mix is a local decision.

Full details of the Neighbourhood Policing Grant allocations and projections for 2025-26 can be found here:Neighbourhood policing grant allocations - GOV.UK

The Government has committed to publishing neighbourhood policing numbers every six months, to align with the official police workforce statistics. The next update is due at the end of January 2026, which will set out the numbers in neighbourhood policing roles as at the end of September 2025.