UK Police Force Funding
What every England & Wales police force receives in 2025-26 — Home Office grant plus local precept — ranked with funding per resident.
Reviewed by the BlueLineHub Editorial Team
Last reviewed: 29 May 2026 · Next review due: 29 November 2026
Total funding available to the 43 territorial forces of England & Wales in 2025-26 — the Home Office core grant plus the locally-set precept — comes to about £9.8 billion. The table is ranked by funding per resident; totals reflect force size, so a bigger force naturally has a bigger budget.
Download CSV| # | Force | Total funding 2025-26 | Per resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Police | £2,293,667,499 | £252 |
| 2 | Merseyside | £331,638,676 | £232 |
| 3 | Cleveland | £121,078,242 | £212 |
| 4 | Northumbria | £300,591,884 | £204 |
| 5 | West Midlands | £598,077,146 | £203 |
| 6 | Greater Manchester | £573,965,227 | £200 |
| 7 | West Yorkshire | £420,762,883 | £179 |
| 8 | South Yorkshire | £250,092,807 | £177 |
| 9 | Durham | £112,902,355 | £176 |
| 10 | Humberside | £162,844,543 | £173 |
| 11 | Cumbria | £84,899,111 | £170 |
| 12 | Lancashire | £253,239,560 | £167 |
| 13 | Nottinghamshire | £178,948,808 | £153 |
| 14 | Cheshire | £150,680,231 | £141 |
| 15 | Staffordshire | £154,682,190 | £137 |
| 16 | Leicestershire | £149,398,893 | £136 |
| 17 | Derbyshire | £142,436,827 | £134 |
| 18 | Avon & Somerset | £231,607,316 | £134 |
| 19 | Devon & Cornwall | £238,109,971 | £134 |
| 20 | Kent | £245,418,856 | £131 |
| 21 | Bedfordshire | £89,796,074 | £130 |
| 22 | Hertfordshire | £155,245,239 | £129 |
| 23 | Thames Valley | £304,039,970 | £127 |
| 24 | Hampshire | £258,895,787 | £126 |
| 25 | Sussex | £216,775,293 | £126 |
| 26 | Northamptonshire | £96,686,118 | £126 |
| 27 | Norfolk | £115,480,008 | £126 |
| 28 | West Mercia | £159,104,841 | £124 |
| 29 | Gloucestershire | £78,049,635 | £122 |
| 30 | Essex | £226,496,040 | £121 |
| 31 | North Yorkshire | £99,967,235 | £120 |
| 32 | Suffolk | £92,286,811 | £120 |
| 33 | Cambridgeshire | £104,239,821 | £120 |
| 34 | Warwickshire | £70,314,436 | £119 |
| 35 | Wiltshire | £82,937,470 | £114 |
| 36 | Lincolnshire | £85,506,516 | £111 |
| 37 | Dorset | £86,023,913 | £110 |
| 38 | Surrey | £132,132,164 | £109 |
| 39 | South Wales | £135,114,023 | £100 |
| 40 | Gwent | £58,261,643 | £97 |
| 41 | North Wales | £56,384,956 | £81 |
| 42 | Dyfed-Powys | £38,930,060 | £75 |
| — | City of London(daytime pop.) | £68,842,409 | — |
Funding per resident uses ONS resident population, so it understates forces that police a large daytime or visitor population — the City of London (residential population under 10,000 but a weekday population in the hundreds of thousands) is shown for its total only, not ranked per resident. Totals are the provisional settlement and exclude some national and specific grants.
Source: Home Office — Provisional Police Grant Report (England & Wales) 2025-26, 'Overall Total' column (Open Government Licence v3.0). Population figures are ONS mid-year estimates.