A police force is set to receive a further £3.2m in the wake of a crash that saw to the deaths of seven people, including two of its officers, and prompted a large-scale operation tackling organised crime.

Policing Minister Sarah Jones announced the money to meet Cleveland Police's "additional costs" incurred after the collision on the A66 at South Bank, near Middlesbrough, on 22 August.

The cash is on top of £2m previously pledged, but not yet paid, by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood amid claims the force was unfairly penalised by national funding rules.

Labour MP for Middlesbrough and Thornaby Andy McDonald welcomed the latest move but said Cleveland Police needed a long-term solution.

In the House of Commons, he asked if the minister would "agree with me that this will not be resolved until there's a complete reconfiguration of policing in this country?"

Fifty people have been arrested as part of Cleveland Police operation against organised crime following the crash in which a Volkswagen Passat, travelling the wrong way down a dual carriageway, smashed into an oncoming marked Cleveland Police car.

Officers PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died at the scene along with the five men in the Passat - Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jakub Matusiak, 23, Makai Saddington, 18, and 17-year-olds Theo Rae and Cole Robert Worthy.

Last week Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner Matt Storey said the force was still waiting for the extra £2m funding promised by the home secretary in August.

The Home Office said the money would arrive by the end of November.

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