Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase the grant to Gloucestershire constabulary so that its reliance on local precepts is no greater than that of metropolitan areas; 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.