HC Deb 25 April 1989 vol 151 cc514-5W
Mr. Shersby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in theOfficial Report in tablular 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 England and Wales in respect of police officers' rent allowance.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Expenditure incurred by police authorities in England and Wales on salaries for police officers in 1987–88 is shown in the table. The figures for allowances include compensatory grant payments but it is not possible to identify such payments separately.

£ million
Salaries1 Allowances Total
Avon and Somerset 45,719 7,801 53,520
Bedfordshire 15,727 2,523 18,250
Cambridgeshire 17,691 2,536 20,227
Cheshire 28,239 4,642 32,881
Cleveland 22,567 4,332 26,899
Cumbria 17,797 2,249 20,046
Derbyshire 27,485 4,592 32,077
Devon and Cornwall 43,769 7,733 51,502
Dorset 18,790 3,163 21,953
Durham 20,422 3,022 23,444
Dyfed-Powys 13,924 1,839 15,763
Essex 43,246 8,794 52,040
Gloucestershire 17,265 3,123 20,388
Greater Manchester 106,342 15,977 122,319
Gwent 15,172 2,411 17,583
Hampshire 49,364 8,633 57,997
Hertfordshire 24,760 3,724 28,484
Humberside 30,630 5,454 36,084
Kent 48,454 8,313 56,767
Lancashire 49,173 6,637 55,810
Leicestershire 26,921 4,981 31,902
Lincolnshire 18,641 3,014 21,655
Merseyside 74,855 13,066 87,921
Norfolk 20,764 3,584 24,348
Northamptonshire 16,898 2,513 19,411
Northumbria 54,245 8,201 62,446
North Wales 19,825 2,621 22,446
North Yorkshire 20,550 2,561 23,111
Nottinghamshire 32,661 5,844 38,505
South Wales 46,005 8,603 54,608
South Yorkshire 44,876 7,512 52,388
Staffordshire 32,702 4,872 37,574

Salaries1 Allowances Total
Suffolk 18,287 2,987 21,274
Surrey 25,961 3,965 29,926
Sussex 43,266 6,651 49,917
Thames Valley 56,679 10,124 66,803
Warwickshire 15,338 2,675 18,013
West Mercia 29,994 4,614 34,608
West Midlands 106,742 15,659 122,401
West Yorkshire 79,035 13,603 92,638
Wiltshire 17,160 2,952 20,112
City of London 14,390 2,457 16,847
Metropolitan 503,180 84,328 587,508
TOTAL 1,975,511 324,885 2,300,396
1 Includes National Insurance.