Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated in cash terms to West Mercia Police in each of the last five financial years; what level of reserves that force held in each of those years; what the cost of (a) management and (b) administration of that force was in each of those years; and what the cost of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner was for that force.

The total funding amounts for West Mercia can be found in the table below. This includes funding from government grants, precept and in year funding for pay awards. The table does not include funding relating to any crime programmes, such as hotspot policing and county lines, outside of the police funding settlement.

The Home Office does not hold data relating to the management and administration costs of forces as well as the cost of the officer of the Police and Crime Commissioners. Decisions on how funding (including the holding of reserves) and resources are utilised are an operational matter for Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners, who are best placed to make resourcing decisions within their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.