Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to publish her Department’s committed spend on front-line police training on animal welfare crimes for each year since 2010 in (a) England and (b) Wales.
The Home Office does not hold the requested information.
We have announced a provisional police funding settlement of up to £15.8 billion for 2021/22. This is a total increase of up to £636 million for the policing system which will enable police to cut crime and tackle offences including relating to animal welfare crimes.