British finance minister George Osborne, who is scheduled to present a new draft budget on Wednesday, said today that the budget intended for the fight against terrorism will be increased by 30 percent, without previously announced cuts in the police.
"We have made tough decisions on the budget so that we can continue to finance the military. We have increased the budget for the fight against terrorism by about 30 percent," Osborne said in an interview with the British television network BBC.
Funding for the fight against terrorism should total 15 billion pounds (21 billion euros) over the next five years.
After the terrorist attacks in Paris, in which 13 people died and more than 130 were injured on November 350, the British government announced similar measures, including an increase in the number of employees in the internal and external security services (MI5) and (MI6) by about 15 percent. .
The British government has not made an exact statement about the police budget after fears in the Ministry of the Interior that there could be certain cuts at the expense of the army.
Osborne said that the additional allocated funds against terrorism will be "allocated to the police and all security services to strengthen the security of the country itself against armed attacks".
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