HC Deb 15 December 1988 vol 143 c709W
42. Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to ensure that adequate resources are available to police authorities.

69. Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he will take to increase the resources and staffing of the South Yorkshire police.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The Home Office meets, through police specific grant, 51 per cent. of all police authorities' expenditure for policing purposes. An additional contribution is made from central funds through block grant.

Applications by police authorities for increases in police establishments in 1989–90 are under consideration and decisions will be announced as soon as possible. Eight hundred police posts are available outside London.