§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the increase in real terms of the amount spent on police equipment in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. MayhewThe following are the figures for local authority capital expenditure on police vehicles, plant and machinery for the years 1976–77 to 1980–81 in England and Wales. Figures for earlier years are not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The cost term figures are the cash outturn figures inflated by the gross domestic product deflater at market prices to 1980–81 average levels.