Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act

HC Deb 19 April 2004 vol 420 cc85-6W

Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what resources have been made available to the police to meet their additional responsibilities under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 in(a) 2001, (b) 2002, (c) 2003 and (d) 2004. [162623]

Ms Blears

This information is not available in the form requested. However the Government grant to support overall police spending will be almost £10.1 billion in 2004–05 which represents an increase of £2.3 billion or a 30 per cent. increase since 2000–01. This provides for a record number of police officers with officer numbers at 138,155 in December 2003—an increase of 5,887 since December 2002.

Within this overall grant we have provided substantial additional funding to the Police Service in England and Wales to enable them to respond to the increased threat from international terrorism since September 2001:

	£ million
2002–03	63
2003–04	59
2004–05	84

The figure for 2004–05 includes an additional £15 million of funding for Police Special Branches which was announced on 19 March.