§ Q117. Sir David Priceasked the Prime Minister if she will make it the policy of Her Majesty's Government to allocate extra funds to the Hampshire county council and to the Hampshire police authority to cover additional expenditure incurred in connection with the presence in the New Forest of the hippy convoy; and if she will make a statement.
§ The Prime MinisterNo. The nature and scale of the additional demands arising from the presence of the convoy were not such as to justify changing the normal funding arrangements, under which more than half of policing costs are met by central funding through police grant.