Police and Crime Commissioners: Costs

(asked on 12th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the annual cost of each Police and Crime Commissioner; and what assessment they have made of the value added to policing from the election of Police and Crime Commissioners.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 26th May 2021

On 4 February 2021, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £15.8 billion in 2021/22. Individual costs associated with PCC offices are available via individual Statement of Accounts online.

PCC salaries are set by the Home Secretary, taking into account a recommendation from the Senior Salaries Review Body, and reflect the size of the police force they oversee. As a locally elected and democratically accountable individual, it is up to them how they decide to balance their expenditure on their policing and crime priorities and on their office functions.

Since their inception, PCCs have brought real accountability to how Chief Constables and their forces perform. They are supporting hundreds of local community groups, charities and partnerships by funding innovative projects to cut crime, intervene early and make people safer.

Overall, PCCs have presided over a reduction in crime to record lows with crimes traditionally measured by the Independent Crime Survey for England and Wales down by well over a third since 2010.

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