Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will allocate additional policing resources to areas experiencing (a) anti-social behaviour and (b) crime rates above the national average.

Decisions about the allocation of police resources are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable PCCs. They are responsible for ensuring the needs of the local community are met.

To help ensure that the police have the resources they need to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, we have given them the biggest funding increase in a decade and are recruiting 20,000 additional officers by March 2023, which provides extra resource to protect the public and keep us safe.

On the 4th February 2021, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £15.8 billion in 2021/22, an increase of up to £636 million compared to 2020/21. Overall police funding available to PCCs will increase by up to £703 million (5.4% in cash terms) next year.