Future funding for law enforcement is to be dependent on how much communities can pay so is policing to be a postcode lottery under Starmer’s new plan?
The Home Office has said police forces in England and Wales could get up to £17.4 billion in funding in 2025-26, an increase of £986.9 million, or 3.5 per cent, on the current financial year – but around one-third of this depends on police and crime commissioners adding £14 to the council tax of an average band D property.
That, in turn, depends on whether people living in those properties can afford the extra strain on their household budgets. It may not sound a lot, but with all the other burdens being placed on us at the moment, it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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The BBC got it right by quoting Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, who said the current police funding formula was “an anachronism”.
“What it results in, because there is such a reliance on council tax now, [is] the richer police forces get richer, the poorer police forces get poorer.”
This should send chills through any Labour MP; that party does not exist to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Of the additional £986.9m going to local police forces, £657.1m is made up of an increase in government grants.
The remaining £329.8m is expected to be raised by council tax increases.
Does This Writer think that the extra funding will be nodded through by police and crime commissioners? Yes I do.
But a large proportion of us will be out-of-pocket because of it.
And if there isn’t a consequent downturn in crime against the poorer people in society, I think serious questions will be asked in communities across the UK, about exactly who the police work for, when we are the people paying their wages.
This will be well worth watching.
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Is policing to be a postcode lottery under Starmer’s new plan?
Future funding for law enforcement is to be dependent on how much communities can pay so is policing to be a postcode lottery under Starmer’s new plan?
The Home Office has said police forces in England and Wales could get up to £17.4 billion in funding in 2025-26, an increase of £986.9 million, or 3.5 per cent, on the current financial year – but around one-third of this depends on police and crime commissioners adding £14 to the council tax of an average band D property.
That, in turn, depends on whether people living in those properties can afford the extra strain on their household budgets. It may not sound a lot, but with all the other burdens being placed on us at the moment, it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
The BBC got it right by quoting Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, who said the current police funding formula was “an anachronism”.
“What it results in, because there is such a reliance on council tax now, [is] the richer police forces get richer, the poorer police forces get poorer.”
This should send chills through any Labour MP; that party does not exist to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Of the additional £986.9m going to local police forces, £657.1m is made up of an increase in government grants.
The remaining £329.8m is expected to be raised by council tax increases.
Does This Writer think that the extra funding will be nodded through by police and crime commissioners? Yes I do.
But a large proportion of us will be out-of-pocket because of it.
And if there isn’t a consequent downturn in crime against the poorer people in society, I think serious questions will be asked in communities across the UK, about exactly who the police work for, when we are the people paying their wages.
This will be well worth watching.
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