Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of (a) the quantity of additional funding Durham Constabulary will be allocated receive for training and recruitment and (b) the number of additional police officers expected to be recruited by Durham Constabulary in each of the next five years.

The 2020/21 police funding settlement announced on 22 January set out that Durham Constabulary will receive up to a maximum of £133.3m funding in 2020/21 if precept flexibility is fully utilised, an increase of £9.7m on 2019/20.

Durham will be able to recruit an additional 68 officers during 2020/21, the first year of the Government’s commitment to recruiting 20,000 more police officers over the next three years.