Police Service of Northern Ireland: Finance

(asked on 14th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the potential effect on funding for the Police Service of Northern Ireland to 2023 of the Northern Ireland Executive's plan to remove all peace walls in Northern Ireland by that date.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 17th November 2016

The Police Service of Northern Ireland is funded by the Department of Justice for Northern Ireland. Allocation of the PSNI’s budget is a matter for the Chief Constable.

As the Government’s Northern Ireland manifesto at the General Election set out, we will always give our fullest possible backing to the men and women of the PSNI who do such a superb job. That is partly why this Government has provided specific Additional Security Funding totalling £230 million in the last parliament and £160 million in the current parliament.

The UK Government has also provided specific funding to the NI Executive to contribute to conditions that will allow the removal of peace walls.

In addition, I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave to question UIN 52739 today.

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