Police: Finance
(asked on 28th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent the level of recorded crime in a police force’s area affects the amount of funding allocated under the proposed new formula for funding of police forces.
This question was answered on 9th November 2015
The proposed police funding model is based on a set of objective indicators that correlate strongly with long term patterns of crime.
As we set out in our consultation on a proposed new funding model, we believe it is not appropriate to directly base force level allocations on crime statistics as these are directly influenced by police activity.