§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure levels he has determined in respect of 1987–88 for the joint police and fire and civil defence authorities in the metropolitan areas and the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority.
§ Mr. HurdFor these authorities, which under the Local Government Act 1985 are, for three years, deemed to have been designated under section 2 of the Rates Act 1984, I have determined expenditure levels as follows:
POLICE £ million Greater Manchester 89.121 Merseyside 62.047 South Yorkshire 36.726 West Midlands 81.402 West Yorkshire 66.117 Northumbria 45.542
FIRE AND CIVIL DEFENCE Fire and civil defence Fire Civil defence £ million £ million £ million Greater Manchester 43.312 43.226 0.086 Merseyside 29.284 29.201 0.083 South Yorkshire 20.681 20.606 0.075 Tyne and Wear 20.989 20.915 0.074 West Yorkshire 33.788 33.702 0.086 West Midlands 39.523 39.436 0.087 London 156.348 156.020 0.328 The above figures are net of receipts and pension contributions, and, for police and civil defence, of specific grant. For police, the figures assume that police grant in 1987–88 will remain at 51 per cent.
Formal notice of their expenditure levels has today been sent to each of the authorities together with advice on the procedure for applying for redetermination of the expenditure levels.