Essex Police Force (Hansard, 25 January 1989)

§ Mr. Douglas Hogg

My right hon. Friend will consider applications for increases in the Essex police establishment, together with those received from other authorities, in the context of the extra police posts which may be

Table 1. Annual total of new passports issued and amendments made to existing passports (1979–1988)
	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983
	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)
London	405,431	71,146	471,479	34,253	392,725	21,101	453,262	25,246	423,957	27,995
Liverpool	474,179	35,916	575,012	24,946	432,953	20,739	542,412	27,021	492,901	30,054
Peterborough	376,507	42,948	459,426	27,696	383,155	17,196	457,855	21,699	434,193	23,141
Newport	389,821	27,105	463,915	22,439	393,331	15,336	447,159	18,241	439,793	19,261
Glasgow	163,153	15,387	212,868	12,191	166,374	7,537	197,109	10,309	182,386	11,141
Belfast	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,514	603
Total	1,809,091	192,502	2,182,700	121,525	1,768,538	81,909	2,097,797	102,516	1,979,744	112,195
Column (a) shows new passports issued.
Column (b) shows endorsements and amendments to existing passports.

	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)
London	424,341	31,988	418,036	26,889	437,857	28,129	355,475	23,345	414,569	22,649
Liverpool	481,540	28,952	446,813	32,327	556,664	36,076	554,993	27,595	665,277	32,829
Peterborough	418,074	25,986	392,460	25,249	482,797	31,581	480,422	29,114	565,096	29,617
Newport	403,520	18,356	369,981	17,472	427,800	18,829	439,302	14,048	547,685	23,175
Glasgow	146,123	10,362	137,098	9,650	159,954	11,587	159,723	11,042	165,633	9,480
Belfast	33,707	1,546	34,655	1,537	45,472	2,031	51,305	2,321	60,248	2,458
Total	1,907,305	117,190	1,799,043	113,124	2,110,544	128,233	2,041,220	107,465	2,418,508	120,208
Column (a) shows new passports issued.
Column (b) shows endorsements and amendments to existing passports.

2 Monthly total of new passports issued (1987–88)
	London	Liverpool	Peterborough	Newport	Glasgow	Belfast	Total
January 1987	23,682	30,319	29,806	27,999	7,251	2,534	121,591
January 1988	25,044	28,592	41,880	35,049	7,402	3,246	141,213
February 1987	35,565	48,946	49,917	39,614	13,838	4,954	192,834
February 1988	34,136	68,377	44,845	52,379	10,613	5,575	215,925
March 1987	40,488	75,898	60,983	51,542	21,179	5,604	255,694
March 1988	38,831	78,554	60,155	66,788	20,035	6,278	270,641
April 1987	33,065	62,425	56,051	31,345	16,334	6,362	205,582
April 1988	39,994	79,168	62,605	59,824	20,556	7,443	269,590
May 1987	24,383	51,586	48,473	30,188	11,109	6,874	172,613
May 1988	45,130	103,559	57,405	60,329	26,149	7,929	300,501
June 1987	31,376	55,486	54,841	44,200	18,524	8,405	212,832
June 1988	51,411	71,656	63,461	57,851	22,272	10,286	276,937
July 1987	52,269	65,066	48,004	45,575	19,069	5,625	235,608
July 1988	48,953	76,327	64,174	46,446	22,682	7,969	266,551
August 1987	40,099	56,929	38,765	53,836	17,939	4,195	211,763
August 1988	34,458	46,551	50,528	51,991	2,630	4,566	190,724
September 1987	24,731	32,838	25,815	49,407	14,665	2,681	150,137
September 1988	24,480	31,081	25,929	22,112	7,284	2,421	113,307
October 1987	15,940	27,529	22,891	23,236	7,410	1,596	98,602
October 1988	23,312	32,086	28,829	26,042	8,453	1,653	120,375
November 1987	20,584	26,496	24,242	21,095	6,646	1,356	100,419
November 1988	31,220	39,145	37,792	37,755	9,474	1,714	157,100
December 1987	13,293	21,475	20,634	21,265	5,759	1,119	83,545
December 1988	17,600	10,181	27,493	31,119	8,083	1,168	95,644

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available year on year and with advice from Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary. He expects shortly to announce his decisions on increases in police establishments for 1989–90.