Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the one per cent police pay rise will cost each police force in England.

On 12 September, the Government announced that, for the police pay year 2017-18, police officers up to the rank of Chief Superintendent would receive a one per cent increase to basic pay plus an additional one per cent non-consolidated payment. Chief police officers would receive a one per cent increase to basic pay. The pay award is applied from 1 September.

The total cost of the one per cent increase to basic pay for all officers in England and Wales has already been budgeted for by police forces and amounts to around £65m. The additional one per cent payment is a one off cost of approximately £50m, representing under half of one per cent of annual police force funding.

The total cost to individual police forces will depend on a range of factors including local decisions about staffing and deployment.