PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(22 January 2026)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total amount of public funding allocated to military police services has been in each of the last five financial years.

Asked by:
James MacCleary (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

The information requested is shown below.

Where available, costs for the three Service Police forces for each Financial Year (FY) since 2015 are shown in the folloing tables.

Royal Navy:

FY

18/19

19/20

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

24/25

Total

£million

10,449,702

11,276,904

10,827,528

11,888,603

13,028,538

11,775,218

11,879,058

81,125,550

British Army:

FY

15/16

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

24/25

Total

£million

94,700,216

96,560,166

90,692,797

92,815,978

95,970,488

91,402,781

93,365,275

91,749,549

84,196,422

89,592,304

921,045,976

Royal Air Force:

FY

20/21

21/22

22/23

23/24

24/25

Total

£million

75.880

77.427

83.278

87.565

93.556

417.706

Notes:

Under UK Financial Regulations the Ministry of Defence is not obliged to hold financial data for more than seven years.

Changes to the budgetary arrangements used by the Services over time preclude the provision of data for some earlier years.


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