Malthouse lifts budget rules to free up ring-fenced funding

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Malthouse lifts budget rules to free up ring-fenced funding

Funding rules have been eased by the policing minister to help forces meet the costs of the COVID-19 outbreak and continue with uplift recruitment.

Date - 28th April 2020
By - Chris Smith

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Kit Malthouse has told every chief constable and police and crime commissioner that the pensions grant Uplift programme cash has been brought forward and released from ringfencing rules to ease short-term cash flow pressures. He explained the Home...

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