HC Deb 07 February 2000 vol 344 cc48-9W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the Police Indices Formula. [107590]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The Police Negotiating Board is responsible for considering all matters concerned with police pay and allowances. There are no plans currently to review the pay formula.

The formula for calculating the annual pay award for the federated ranks of the police service has been in use since 1994, and is intended to keep police pay in line with inflation. The pay award for 1997 was 3.5 per cent, for 1998, 4.0 per cent. and for 1999, 3.6 per cent, paid from September each year.