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<p>The Government does not direct Police & Crime Commissioners or Chief Constables
about the proportion of local funding that should be devoted to different crime types.
Decisions on the operational deployment of resources are a matter for Chief Constables
and Police and Crime Commissioners, who are held to account by the communities they
serve. However, through the National Cyber Security Programme, we invested £117 million
under the 2010-15 Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response to cyber-crime,
in addition to any funding allocated locally.</p><p>The cyber threats we face continue
to grow in scale and sophistication. This is why the National Cyber Security Strategy
2016-2021 is supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment.</p><p>The Government
provides ring-fenced funding for counter-terrorism policing. The level of counter-terrorism
police funding is published annually in a Written Ministerial Statement on the Police
Grant Report. These figures are set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015/16*</p></td><td><p>£564m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£640m
resource and £30m capital</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£633m resource
and £42m capital</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Prior to 2016/17 no figure was
published for CT policing capital.</p><p>The Home Secretary has announced a further
£24 million for CT policing in 2017-18. For reasons of national security we do not
publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by force
area or by capability.</p>
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