§ Mr. Cabornasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice his Department has given to the Police Federation in the last five years about payments of the costs of appeals on behalf of its members in disciplinary cases; how many appeals by police have been paid for wholly by the appellant in the past five years; how many appeals by police have been partly funded by the appellant; and what is the average cost of a police appeal.
§ Mr. HurdThe Department has given no advice to the Police Federation about the payment of the costs of appeals on behalf of their members in disciplinary cases. Section 37(3) of the Police Act 1964 provides the Secretary of State with the power to make a direction that an appellant pay the whole or part of the costs of his appeal. No such direction has been made in the last five years and the costs have fallen to be met by the appropriate force out of the police fund. There is no information available about the average cost of a police appeal and could be obtained only at disproportinate cost.