The Home Office manages police funding for England and Wales, currently addressing structural gaps in the funding formula that disadvantage rural forces and fail to account for demographic change. The government has committed to recruiting 13,000 additional neighbourhood policing personnel by 2029 with £200 million allocated for 2025–26, while forces face constraints on capital investment and IT modernisation due to high pay costs.
First Reading 15:48:00 A Bill to make provision to ensure that the police forces in England and Wales have sufficient resources to deliver police services; and for connected purposes. The Bill was introduced by Lord Wigley, read a first time …
That this House is concerned by the recently released Home Office figures regarding police officer and staff figures across England and Wales; notes that since 2010 there has been a reduction in the total workforce of 45,830 from 240,243 in …