Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the National Counter Terrorism Security Office spent on equality and diversity training in the 2022-23 financial year.

The National Counter-Terrorism Security Office is a police hosted unit that supports the Protect and Prepare strands of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST.

Budgets for national units are set by Counter-Terrorism Policing Headquarters, who work with the Home Office to advise on funding for the counter-terrorism policing network. Overall levels of counter-terrorism police funding are confirmed annually as part of the annual police funding statement set out to Parliament. (https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-12-14/debates/22121458000011/ProvisionalPoliceGrantReport(EnglandAndWales)2023-24).

The Home Office does not routinely require police forces specifically to report on counter-terrorism police expenditure on equality and diversity training. In any event, breakdowns of counter-terrorism police funding allocations are not provided publicly for national security reasons.