Dan Worsley, the Met’s chief finance officer, told the committee earlier this month that Scotland Yard was still “working through what the [Government’s] additional police grant monies means for us, and what the conditions are attached, in terms of what that means for our net recruitment plans, and so I don’t have an end-point [of officer numbers] for the 2025/26 financial year, until we’ve worked through how that money will be applied”.