Home Office written question – answered at on 13 February 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the increase in the operational budget for counter-terror policing for 2019-20.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £160m funding for counter-terrorism policing in 2019-20 in the Budget statement on 29th October 2018 (Hansard Vol. 648, Column 657). This takes counter-terrorism police funding for next year to over £800m. The entirety of this £160m additional funding is new money not previously announced or agreed.
The effect of this additional investment will be that counter-terrorism police budgets increase by £59m, from £757m in 2018-19 to £816m in 2019-20.
CT police funding since 2015-16 is set out in the table below.
£m | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Baseline budget (as SR 2015) | 564 | 708 | 707 | 686 | 656 |
Additional investment (since SR) | - | - | 28 | 71 | 160 |
Total funding | 564 | 708 | 735 | 757 | 816 |
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