Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many additional police officers she plans to fund through the Uplift operation for each policy force by 31 March 2021.

HM Treasury 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. HMT has also confirmed that the Home Office will receive an additional £45m of funding in 2019/20 to help forces start recruiting as soon as possible.

Up to 6,000 additional officers are to be recruited by the end of March 2021.