Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2017 to Question 71274, what proportion of the total police budget in England and Wales the £4.6 million outlined in that Answer represents.

Overall police spending for 2016-17 was £11.6 billion and 2017-18 is £11.9 billion including precept. The vast majority of this funding (over £11bn in 2017-18) is provided directly to democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables enabling them to tackle crime, including fraud.