§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the procedures and criteria used in determining the block grant entitlement of the Metropolitan police.
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§ Mr. ChopeBlock grant is paid direct to the receiver for the Metropolitan police district (MPD) under the provisions of section 10 and schedule 2 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982. As police authority for the MPD the Home Secretary approves the Metropolitan police estimates. Local authorities are consulted each year by the receiver before he puts his financial proposals to the Home Secretary, and their views are taken into account. In calculating the amount of block grant payable to the receiver, the Secretary of State therefore determines his grant-related expenditure (GRE) each year at the value, net of specific grants and receipts, estimated for the receiver's expenditure that year.
The receiver's grant-related poundage (GRP) for expenditure at the level of GRE is determined by reference to his share of the total GRE for London.
In other respects the calculation of block grant is as for all authorities. A more detailed description of this is contained in the Rate Support Grant Report (England) 1986–87 but, briefly, an authority's entitlement to grant is determined by deducting from its total expenditure the product of its grant-related poundage and its gross rateable value (and, where specified in the rate support grant, a multiplier determined under section 59 of the Act).