Written question asked by David Simmonds (Conservative) on Friday, 29 August 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 2 September 2025. It was answered by Sarah Jones (Labour) on Thursday, 11 September 2025 on behalf of the Home Office.

Police: Finance

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 65011 on Police: Finance, what estimate she has made of the total monetary value of council tax receipts from the police precept in England in (a) 2024-25 and (b) each subsequent year of the Spending Review, on which the increase in police spending power was calculated.

Answer

The published total council tax receipts for policing 2024-25 and 2025-26 can be found below (£m):

	2024-25	2025-26
Total value	5,650.0	6,057.6
Year-on-year increases	341.4	407.7

As set out in the Spending Review (SR) 2025 document, published 11 June 2025, the Phase 2 settlement provides an average 1.7% real terms increase per year in police spending power. Over the SR period, police spending power is projected to increase by an average 2.3% per year in real terms.

Police spending power includes projected spending from additional income, including estimated funding from the police council tax precept.

However, this remains subject to final decision on precept levels and individual police and crime commissioner decisions. The final police precept level and core government funding will be set out in the annual police funding settlement in the usual way.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 71489
Session: 2024-26
Related items: Police: Finance
Monday, 14 July 2025
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House of Commons; Police: Finance
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
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House of Commons
Subjects: Finance Police
Contains statistics: Yes
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Police: Finance

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