Police: Finance

(asked on 13th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much she expects to be top-sliced from the (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 police grant; and from what areas that funding will be top-sliced.


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Mike Penning
This question was answered on 20th November 2015

Reallocations from central Government funding to the police are set out in a Written Ministerial Statement published alongside the Police Grant Report each year. Decisions on funding for 2016/17 will be taken after the Spending Review reports later this month and reallocations will be published in the usual way.

For 2015/16, reallocations totalled £177 million (rounded to the nearest £1million) and are listed below for your reference.

In addition, a further £564 m illion was allocated in respect of counter-terrorism policing.

Police Innovation Fund 70

Police Knowledge Fund 5

Independent Police Complaints Commission (for the transfer of integrity functions) 30

College of Policing (for direct entry schemes) 5

City of London National and International Capital City Grant 3

HMIC (for PEEL inspection regime) 9

Police Special Grant 15

Major Programmes 40

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