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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

DARK SECRETS: Council tax to rise to fund increase in police budgets | Vintage Vibes

Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Council tax is set to increase by almost £330 million to fund policing across England and Wales next year.

Ministers have set out a provisional 3.5% real-terms increase in funding for forces, but a third of the total £986.9 million package depends on council taxes increasing by £14 for the average Band D house.

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