Police

HC Deb 19 December 1985 vol 89 cc273-4W

Mr. Kaufman

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a statement of, respectively, central Government and total public expenditure on the police, broken down according to the principal items of expenditure, indicating (a) intended expenditure for the current financial year, as stated in Cmnd. 9428, (b) the expected outturn of expenditure for the current financial year and (c) planned expenditure for 1986–87.

Mr. Hurd

The information in respect of England and Wales is as follows:

	£ million cash
	(a)	(b)	(c)
	1985–86 plans Cmnd 9428	1985–86 estimated outturn	1986–87 plans
Central government expenditure:
current	50	52	55

	£ million cash
	(a)	(b)	(c)
	1985–86 plans Cmnd 9428	1985–86 estimated outturn	1986–87 plans
capital	34	28	33
Local authority expenditure:
current	2,655	2,770	2,880
capital	104	94	92
Total	2,843	2,944	3,060

The Government are examining how to ensure that adequate resources continue to be available to enable the police service to discharge its increasing commitments.