Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her 13 January 2020 announcement on funding for tasers, if she will ensure that (a) Hampshire constabulary and (b) other police forces that took early decisions to invest in tasers are not financially disadvantaged by those funding allocations.
The £10 million announced by the Home Secretary is additional funding which will further support police forces to uplift the number of officers carrying taser by up to 10,000. My Department is working closely with the police on allocating funding.
It is over two fininacial years, so the answer is no.