Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) financial and (b) other steps her Department is taking to help prevent crime in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire, (iii) England.

The 2024-25 police funding settlement provides funding of up to £18.5 billion. Cheshire Police’s funding will be up to £264.2m in 2024-25. This is in addition to £2.5m provided for the 2024-25 pay award which has been allocated outside of the police funding settlement.

Further funding has been provided through the Hotspot Response Programme, under which Cheshire has been allocated £1,000,000 for 2024/25 to deliver visible uniformed patrols in the streets and neighbourhoods worst affected by serious violence and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB).

In addition, this Government has put prevention front and centre of our plans to improve the lives of people across the United Kingdom. We have committed to rolling out a network of Young Futures Hubs which will bring together services to help improve the way young people can access the support they need. We will be engaging with local communities, the police, charities, and other key partners to support the design of the hubs and explore options for their delivery.

Finally, the Home Secretary has also made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, which includes the addition of thousands more neighbourhood police personnel, as part of the Safer Streets mission. Funding for 2025/26 will be subject to the Spending Review.