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<p>Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) can keep part of their funding in financial
reserves to help manage financial risk and to fund major future costs such as change
programmes aimed at improving services to the public.</p><p>Information on police
force reserves in England and Wales is published online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-financial-reserves%20"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-financial-reserves
</a>This also includes statutory guidance in the information that PCCs should publish
on their financial reserves.</p><p>The Lancashire PCC held total resource reserves
of £37.9 million in March 2018.</p>
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