HC Deb 19 December 1989 vol 164 cc151-2W
Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will put a table in theOfficial Report showing (a) his recent allocation of police officers by police authority, (b) the number of police officers requested by the authorities concerned and (c) the number of police officers as a proportion of the population served that will pertain after the new allocations are made.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information is as follows:

Police posts approved1 Posts applied for Police/population2 for ratio taking into account police increases
Avon and Somerset 10 50 458
Bedfordshire 8 8 504
Cambridgeshire 7 10 541
Cheshire 20 20 506
Cleveland 13 19 368
Cumbria 19 50 416
Derbyshire 19 34 510
Devon and Cornwall 17 48 518
Dorset 14 27 516
Durham 434
Dyfed Powys 495
Essex 55 79 511
Gloucestershire 453
Greater Manchester 54 248 366
Gwent 2 11 441
Hampshire 25 27 527
Hertfordshire 18 35 503
Humberside 15 20 424
Kent 50 50 504
Lancashire 28 81 432
Leicestershire 53 75 488
Lincolnshire 14 20 487
Merseyside 308
Norfolk 46 66 528
Northamptonshire 20 29 500
Northumbria 38 243 403
North Wales 21 10 478
North Yorkshire 25 35 506
Nottinghamshire 26 63 430
South Wales 31 67 411
South Yorkshire 20 50 431
Staffordshire 14 20 469
Suffolk 18 26 531
Surrey 10 50 449
Sussex 39 54 475
Thames Valley 65 158 530
Warwickshire 15 35 482
West Mercia 32 32 530
West Midlands 63 350 380
West Yorkshire 20 47 390
Wiltshire 13 19 507
City of London 5
Metropolitan 150 3 252
1 In some cases increases are offered subject to the police authority's confirmation that it will meet its share of the cost.
2 Police establishments at 1 April 1990. Population at mid 1988.
3 The Home Secretary is police authority for the Metropolitan Police.