(Home
Office): My Rt Hon Friend, the Home Secretary, has
today laid before the House, the Police Grant Report (England and
Wales) 2017/18 (HC 944). Copies are available in the Vote Office.
The Report sets out, my Rt Hon Friend, the Home Secretary’s
determination for 2017/18 of the aggregate amount of grant that she
proposes to pay under section 46(2) of the Police Act 1996, and the
amount to be paid to the Greater London Authority for the Mayor’s
Office for Policing and Crime.
The allocations that have been laid before the House today are as
set out in my Statement of 15 December. This reflects the fact
that the Government is committed to protecting the public. The
Government will provide the resources necessary for the police to
do their critical work, and prioritise finishing the job of
police reform by enabling the police to transform so they can
tackle changing crime, deal with previously hidden crimes and
protect the vulnerable.
Following the principles set out on the 4 February 2016 when
setting out the final police funding settlement for 2016/17
[HCWS510] direct resource funding for each PCC, including
precept, will be protected at flat cash levels compared to
2015/16, assuming that precept income is increased to the maximum
amount available in both 2016/17 and 2017/18. No PCC who chooses
to maximise precept in both years will face a reduction in cash
funding next year compared to 2015/16. We have updated our
precept forecasts for 2017/18 since February to reflect actual
tax base increases in 2016/17.
I will continue to allocate specific funding for Counter
Terrorism Policing to ensure that critical national
counter-terrorism capabilities are maintained. We have allocated
£633m Resource funding and £42m Capital funding to support
counter-terrorism policing in 2017/18. In addition a further £32m
will be provided for armed policing from the Police
Transformation Fund in 2017/18. Police and Crime Commissioners
will receive full counter-terrorism funding allocations
imminently. For security reasons these allocations will not be
available in the public domain.
This Statement also includes details of other funding streams
that the Home Office, the Department of Communities and Local
Government and the Welsh Government intend to provide to the
police in 2017/18.
I have set out in a separate document (attached) the tables
illustrating how we propose to allocate the police funding
settlement between the different funding streams and between
Local Policing Bodies for 2017/18. These documents are intended
to be read together.
Police capital
As set out in the Provisional Police Grant Report in December I
still intend to allocate the majority of capital funding directly
to Local Policing Bodies.
