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registered interest
date	03/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding to West Midlands Police for the policing of road traffic collisions.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Mrs Paulette Hamilton
uin	24843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>West Midlands Police’s funding will be up to £790.4m in 2024/25, an increase of up to £51.1m when compared to 2023/24.</p><p>The policing of fatal and serious injury road collisions and how available resources are deployed in the West Midlands is the responsibility of the West Midlands Police Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner, taking into account the specific local problems and demands with which they are faced.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/05/2024 15:47:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4938 label Biography information for Mrs Paulette Hamilton

1399346

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the funding settlement will be for West Midlands Police in the financial year 2022-23; and whether that settlement represents an increase from the 2021-22 financial year settlement.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	96916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>The provisional funding settlement for West Midlands Police will be up to £694.9 million in 2022-23; an increase of up to £39.4 million when compared to 2021-22.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/01/2022 15:26:08 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1127559

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to increase funding for West Midlands Police to tackle violent crime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	256279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is determined to do everything it can to tackle knife crime and break the deadly cycle of violence that devastates the lives of victims, families and communities.</p><p>We are taking action to address these increases on a number of fronts in support of our Serious Violence Strategy. This includes providing the police with the powers and resources they need to take effective action in all areas of the country. Through the Offensive Weapons Act we are tightening the law in relation to knives, including making it an offence to possess certain offensive weapons in private, and stopping knives being sent to residential addresses after they are bought online unless the seller has arrangements with a delivery company to verify age. We are also introducing new Knife Crime Prevention Orders, requested by the police to help them to tackle young people who are on the cusp of serious violence, to help them make more positive lifestyle choices. We also continue to support the police national weeks of action against knife crime under Operation Sceptre.</p><p>The police funding settlement provides the police with the biggest increase in funding since 2010, and in addition we are providing the additional £100 million to tackle serious violence announced in the Spring Statement on 13 March, which includes £80m of new funding from the Treasury. £63.4 million of this funding has already been allocated to 18 police forces most affected by serious violence to pay for surge operational activity, including increased patrols, and £1.6 million to help improve the quality of data on serious violence, particularly knife crime, to support planning and operations. West Midlands has been allocated £7.62m from this fund. A full list of the forces and the funding they have received from the serious violence fund is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/police-granted-funding-boost-for-action-on-serious-violence." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/police-granted-funding-boost-for-action-on-serious-violence. </a></p><p>The remaining £35m from the Serious Violence Fund will be invested in Violence Reduction Units, which will support the local response in a number of areas worst affected by serious violence. VRUs will bring together a range of agencies including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach to preventing serious violence altogether. We are working closely with local partners to develop proposals for Violence Reduction Units, and will be seeking to make announcements on this funding in early June.</p><p>We are also raising awareness among young people of the dangers of carrying a knife through our national media campaign - #knifefree – and supporting early intervention through the £22 million Early Intervention Youth Fund, which is already supporting 29 local projects, including around £2m allocated to the Police and Crime Commissioner in the West Midlands to target young people identified as being most at risk, particularly those at risk of exclusion from school, and those already engaged in crime and violence.</p><p>We have also introduced the £200 million Youth Endowment Fund, which will be delivered over the next 10 years to support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence, focusing on those most at risk. The charity Impetus, working in partnership with the Early Intervention Foundation and Social Investment Business, is now operating the Fund.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 29/05/2019 14:23:19 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

864437

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the level of funding for West Midlands Police.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	132920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>In January I announced the police funding settlement for 2018/19 which will see an additional £450m invested in the policing system, around £270m direct to PCCs. Prior to this I spoke to police leaders in every police force in England and Wales about the demands they face, including representatives from the West Midlands and this settlement reflects the evidence they provided.</p><p>I understand that the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has chosen to use his increased precept flexibility, which will provide around £9.5m additional funding for West Midlands Police in 2018/19. The PCC has said that he will use this additional funding to improve services delivered to the public.</p><p>Decisions about the allocation of police resources and deployment of officers are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable PCCs. They are responsible for ensuring the needs of the local community are met.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 132921 question first answered 20/03/2018 12:28:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

845692

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the appropriate level of funding for West Midlands Police.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	128664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, I spoke to every force in England and Wales about the changing demands they face, and how these can best be managed, including the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for West Midlands. Following this engagement, I announced the police funding settlement for 2018/19 which will see an additional £450m invested in the policing system, around £270m direct to PCCs. The West Midlands PCC chose to use increased precept flexibility, which will provide around £9.5m additional funding for West Midlands Police in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 128663 question first answered 23/02/2018 10:23:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

673579

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total of the police grant settlement for the West Midlands from her Department was in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17; and what the proposed such grant is for 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	60147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>Information on 2017/18 police funding was published on 15 December 2016, on the Government website and is available at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/provisional-police-grant-report-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/provisional-police-grant-report-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on 2016/17 police funding was published on 4 February 2016, on the Government website and is available at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-police-grant-report-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-police-grant-report-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on 2015/16 police funding was published on 4 February 2015, on the Government website and is available at the following location: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-police-grant-report-england-and-wales-2015-to-16" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-police-grant-report-england-and-wales-2015-to-16</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 60148 question first answered 19/01/2017 08:21:40 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

583190

registered interest
date	14/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total budget was for West Midlands police force in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	46436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>Details of core Government funding to Police and Crime Commissioners (and previously Police Authorities) are published annually in the Police Grant Report. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance Figures for 2010-11 to 2016-17 are shown below for information. Police and Crime Commissioners are required to publish annual group accounts showing the budget and expenditure for their respective police forces and their own offices, including precept and other local income. For West Midlands Police, these are available at http://www.westmidlands-pcc.gov.uk/transparency/budgetary-and-financial-information/statements-of-accounts</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Core Government funding (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>504,297,082</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>497,784,836</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>464,421,955</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>472,809,895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>456,919,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>433,573,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>431,099,809</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: Some specific grants have been rolled into core Government funding over this period, including in 2012/13, the Neighbourhood Policing Fund and in 2014/15, the Community Safety Fund. This affects comparison between the figures over the period. Additionally, core funding previously paid by DCLG became part of Home Office core funding in 2013/14. These figures are included in all years to aid comparison.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/10/2016 13:40:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff