§ Mr. GreenwayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list on a force by force basis the estimated costs of implementing PSRCP [104376]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeMost of the costs of implementing the Public Safety Radio Communications Service (PSRCS) are contained within annual charges for the core service. These will be met by central funding by means of deduction from total police grant provision and will be reduced by the £50 million subsidy I announced last September.
Individual forces will elect to take a range of services additional to the core service to meet their own requirements. From figures provided by forces we estimate that the cost of these non-core services will be around £30 million per annum for the police service nationally. The table provides the currently available estimates for the cost of non-core services to individual forces.
Forces will also need to purchase radio terminals, control room equipment and integration services. No force-specific estimates are available, but the Police Information Technology Organisation estimates that the total cost of these additional items for forces in England and Wales will be around £300 million in net present cost terms. This includes the cost of initial purchase and subsequent replacement over the life of the project but excludes the cost of the dedicated teams which each force will need to set up to manage implementation of the 301W PSRCS. These costs need to be set against the expenditure which forces already incur in maintaining their existing radiocommunication systems.
Estimate of force annual PSRCS menu service charge at 1999–2000 prices Force Estimated annual cost of menu services £000 Avon and Somerset Constabulary 84 Bedfordshire Police 105 Cambridgeshire Constabulary 210 Cheshire Constabulary 384 City of London Police 132 Cleveland Constabulary 257 Cumbria Constabulary 242 Derbyshire Constabulary 297 Devon and Cornwall Constabulary 916 Dorset Police 160 Durham Constabulary 671 Dyfed-Powys Police 23 Essex Police 1,357 Gloucestershire Constabulary 233 Greater Manchester Police (GMP) 599 Gwent Constabulary 134 Hampshire Constabulary 1,442 Hertfordshire Constabulary 412 Humberside Police 216 Kent County Constabulary 1,460 Lancashire Constabulary 755 Leicestershire Constabulary 346 Lincolnshire Police 206 Merseyside Police 329 Metropolitan Police Service 3,188 Norfolk Constabulary 248 North Wales Police 238 North Yorkshire Police 886 Northamptonshire Police 1,281 302W
Table 1: Police force net expenditure, and percentage change in real terms, 1990–91 to 1999–2000 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 £000 (+/-%) £000 (+/-%) £000 (+/-%) £000 (+/-%) £000 (+/-%) Avon and Somerset 107,282 2.9 116,004 1.8 127,928 6.7 134,323 2.3 141,283 3.7 Bedfordshire 36,053 3.1 40,027 4.5 45,036 8.9 48,666 5.3 51,514 4.4 Cambridgeshire 43,173 3.1 48,001 4.7 51,126 3.1 56,974 8.6 58,650 1.5 Cheshire 63,620 -0.2 68,496 1.4 74,058 4.7 80,026 5.3 82,804 2.0 City of London 38,288 -0.3 41,919 3.1 45,151 4.3 51,111 10.3 52,365 1.0 Cleveland 52,889 3.2 58,690 4.5 62,269 2.7 66,289 3.7 69,007 2.6 Cumbria 41,312 5.1 46,548 6.1 50,736 5.5 51,699 -0.7 54,281 3.5 Derbyshire 62,086 -3.3 66,686 1.1 76,554 11.1 78,976 0.5 84,362 5.3 Devon and Cornwall 107,378 4.8 119,619 4.9 129,634 4.9 137,578 3.4 140,830 0.9 Dorset 50,150 6.6 54,239 1.8 57,639 2.9 59,345 0.3 66,285 10.1 Durham 45,673 2.2 49,517 2.1 53,853 5.3 57,825 4.6 59,237 1.0 Dyfed-Powys 32,504 0.6 36,366 5.3 40,189 7.0 42,315 2.6 45,595 6.2 Essex 106,902 7.3 119,118 4.9 129,559 5.3 137,043 3.0 n/a n/a Gloucestershire 41,526 5.1 46,370 5.1 49,361 3.0 51,549 1.7 55,180 5.5 Greater Manchester 236,520 1.6 256,562 2.1 281,761 6.3 304,622 5.3 320,931 3.9 Gwent 34,595 5.4 38,270 4.2 40,642 2.8 42,609 2.1 44,148 2.2 Hampshire 114,172 4.3 127,841 5.4 142,133 7.6 146,790 0.6 155,257 4.3 Hertfordshire 59,681 5.4 63,633 0.4 70,029 6.5 74,029 3.0 84,435 12.5 Humberside 71,151 2.5 78,591 4.0 86,795 6.9 90,194 1.2 92,365 1.0 Kent 107,675 2.1 128,118 12.0 136,307 3.0 142,749 2.0 153,757 6.2 Lancashire 114,195 5.4 127,076 4.8 132,092 0.6 142,518 5.1 145,181 0.4 Leicestershire 63,597 1.9 70,562 4.5 75,262 3.2 78,201 1.2 81,166 2.3 Lincolnshire 43,025 5.2 48,704 6.6 53,039 5.4 55.698 2.3 n/a n/a Merseyside 165,167 2.1 182,680 4.1 193,410 2.5 207,713 4.6 215,461 2.3 Metropolitan Police 1,273,265 9.6 1,420,575 5.1 1,513,654 3.1 1,552,791 -0.1 1,588,001 0.8 Norfolk 49,106 5.2 56,134 7.6 60,658 4.6 64,086 2.9 68,546 5.5 Northamptonshire 41,997 2.5 47,081 5.6 52,575 8.1 55,136 2.2 60,306 7.8
Estimate of force annual PSRCS menu service charge at 1999–2000 prices Force Estimated annual cost of menu services £000 Northumbria Police 635 Nottinghamshire Constabulary 178 South Wales Constabulary 684 South Yorkshire Police 256 Staffordshire Police 801 Suffolk Constabulary 1,450 Surrey Police 334 Sussex Police 1,180 Thames Valley Police 1,303 Warwickshire Constabulary 650 West Mercia Constabulary 268 West Midlands Police 2,670 West Yorkshire Police 2,297 Wiltshire Constabulary 135 Total for England and Wales 29,655