MP, Labour’s Shadow Home
Secretary, commenting on the Home Secretary’s claim today that
”There has been an increase in [police] resources in the last
three years”, said:
“It’s a bit rich for to claim that police funding
has increased on the same day that the independent budget
watchdog says that central government funding has been cut by
thirty per cent in real terms (after inflation) since 2010/11.
“Instead of trying to hoodwink the public the Home Secretary
should accept what almost everyone knows, everyone but the
Tories. Police cuts have consequences and his government’s
underfunding of the police is hampering the fight against crime.”
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Notes to editors:
Home Secretary said on Sky this afternoon:
"There has been an increase in resources in the last three years.
I don't think it's enough given the challenges and the
complexities and the crimes that you're facing.”
https://news.sky.com/story/sajid-javid-admits-police-do-not-have-enough-resources-as-he-faces-pay-anger-11495380
The Home Secretary’s misleading claim that there have been
“increases in funding”, is not based a direct central government
increase in funds, and includes money not usually included in the
figure such as precept income, money from the Welsh government,
and PFI payments. It also includes money that is top-sliced from
forces’ budgets and put into specific funding pots which they can
they apply to, and may or may not be successful, and
counter-terror police funding, which is not normally included.
