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Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2026 [Draft]

17 Mar 2026 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Topical Question Time
Police Scotland (Budget Allocation)
Constance, Angela SNP Almond Valley Watch on SPTV

The 2026-27 Scottish budget will provide record funding of more than £1.7 billion for policing, which is a total increase of £81.5 million, or 5 per cent, compared with the published 2025-26 autumn budget revision. We will also provide an additional £3 million per year in each of the next three years to support Police Scotland’s successful work on tackling retail crime and an additional £2.7 million in 2026-27 to support Police Scotland’s work in the detection and disruption of child sexual abuse and exploitation.

The chief constable recently confirmed at the Criminal Justice Committee that that budget allocation will allow her to prioritise front-line services for our communities and to ensure that she can maintain officer numbers at 16,500 in the coming year.

In the same item of business

3. Liam Kerr (North East Scotland) (Con) Con
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on Police Scotland of the budget 2026-27 allocation being £50 million less than the ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs (Angela Constance) SNP
The 2026-27 Scottish budget will provide record funding of more than £1.7 billion for policing, which is a total increase of £81.5 million, or 5 per cent, co...
Liam Kerr Con
The cabinet secretary strangely failed to mention one implication of the budget being £50 million less than requested, which is that, at the Scottish Nationa...
Angela Constance SNP
Although the pay—including sick pay—and conditions of police officers are negotiated through the Police Negotiating Board for Scotland, the issue of whether ...
Liam Kerr Con
It is always worth remembering that I, too, have access to figures. Since 2021, recorded crime is up 6 per cent, sexual crime is up 10 per cent, shoplifting ...
Angela Constance SNP
I am very glad that Mr Kerr has access to figures, because he will therefore know that the Government has increased the budget for policing year on year sinc...
Rona Mackay (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) (SNP) SNP
What steps is Police Scotland taking to ensure that there is a good recruitment pipeline into our national force? Can the cabinet secretary provide any reass...
Angela Constance SNP
Investment in policing has enabled Police Scotland to take on more recruits in the past financial year than at any time since 2013, and Scotland continues to...
Sharon Dowey (South Scotland) (Con) Con
Recent reports suggest that retail crime in Scotland has risen sharply, with more than 50,000 shoplifting incidents recorded last year and nearly one in five...
Angela Constance SNP
It is a shame that Ms Dowey and her colleague Liam Kerr did not vote for the Scottish Government budget, which provides £3 million not just this year but nex...