Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase her Department's grant to Gloucestershire constabulary to pay for the cost of additional police officers recruited as a result of her policies; and if she will make a statement.

The Chancellor has announced that the Home Office will receive £750 million for investment in policing in 2020/21 to enable delivery of the year one officer uplift. The Chancellor also confirmed that the Home Office will receive an additional £45m of funding in 2019/20 to help forces to start recruiting as soon as possible.

As usual, force-level funding, including government grants and proposed precept referendum limits will be set out at the provisional police funding settlement later this year.