Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what formula her Department plans to use to allocate (a) the initial 6,000 officers and (b) subsequent officers to territorial policing as set out in the 2019 Spending Review.

The Prime Minister and Home Secretary announced the recruitment of 20,000 extra officers over the next three years.

The Chancellor has since 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. This demonstrates our commitment to giving police extra resource to protect the public and keep us all safe.

The allocation of officers across England and Wales is yet to be confirmed. Force level funding will be set out in the usual way at the provisional police settlement.