Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the policing budget was spent on (a) cyber-crime and (b) counter-terrorism in (i) the UK and (ii) Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years.

The Government does not direct Police & Crime Commissioners or Chief Constables about the proportion of local funding that should be devoted to different crime types. Decisions on the operational deployment of resources are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, who are held to account by the communities they serve. However, through the National Cyber Security Programme, we invested £117 million under the 2010-15 Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response to cyber-crime, in addition to any funding allocated locally.

The cyber threats we face continue to grow in scale and sophistication. This is why the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 is supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment.

The Government provides ring-fenced funding for counter-terrorism policing. The level of counter-terrorism police funding is published annually in a Written Ministerial Statement on the Police Grant Report. These figures are set out in the table below.

* Prior to 2016/17 no figure was published for CT policing capital.

The Home Secretary has announced a further £24 million for CT policing in 2017-18. For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force area or by capability.