Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department is allocating to each police service for the airwave replacement programme.

The Home Office funds the policing share of the main infrastructure costs of the Emergency Services Network (the new communication system which will replace the current Airwave system) through a reallocation within the police funding settlement. Police & Crime Commissioners meet certain local costs, such as new handsets for officers, from their general budgets. In 2016/17, the Home Office provided £33.1m direct to Police and Crime Commissioners to assist with the modernisation of control rooms required for the new communications system.