§ Mr. Sackvilleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what expenditure levels he has determined in respect of 1988–89 for the joint police and fire and civil defence authorities in the metropolitan areas and the London Fire and Civil Defence Authority; and if he will make a statement.
§ 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:
£ million Police Greater Manchester 94,052 Merseyside 66,916 South Yorkshire 40,691 West Midlands 92,254 West Yorkshire 72,479 Northumbria 49,926 Fire and Civil Defence Greater Manchester 46,799 Merseyside 31,617 South Yorkshire 22,314 Tyne and Wear 22,649 West Yorkshire 36,489 West Midlands 42,696 London 166,775 The 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 1988–89 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.