Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the £750 million of funding for the recruitment of police officers in 2020-21 will be allocated to (a) police forces and (b) retained by her Department.

The Home Office is investing £750 million of new funding into policing to enable forces to recruit 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021.

The full details of this funding will be announced at the provisional police funding settlement announcement in the usual way.