Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made in reviewing the police funding formula.

Home Office officials have started internal work on a wider review of the police funding formula to ensure that force funding is fair and keeps the public safe.

A new approach to allocating funding will be brought in as part of our reforms to police structures.

Next steps on the review of the funding formula, including consultation arrangements, will be set out in the coming months, once the Independent Review of police force structures has been completed and presented to Parliament.