§ Mr. ShersbyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in theOfficial Report in tabular form details for the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available of the total pay bill, compensatory grant received and income tax paid by each police authority in Scotland in respect of police officers' rent allowance.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information is not held centrally in the detailed form requested, but the table shows the total sums paid by each police authority in the 1987–88 financial year by way of rent allowance and compensatory grant.
Police Authority £ Central 1,278,493 Dumfries and Galloway 686,740 Fife 1,415,990 Grampian 2,396,359 Lothian and Borders 4,253,725 Northern 910,187 Strathclyde 17,982,163 Tayside 2,605,438 Total 31,529,095 This expenditure attracted 51 per cent. specific police grant.