§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library the correspondence between the hon. Member for Stalybridge748W and Hyde and his Department's Under-Secretary for State on the subject of increases in charges made for policing at Football League grounds in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Peter LloydA reply to the hon. Member's letter to me of 12 July about this matter will be sent to him as soon as possible. A copy will be placed in the Library.
§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidelines he is issuing to police authorities on the assessment of charges for the policing of football matches following recent increases in the levels of such charges.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThese charges are a matter for police authorities. Lord Justice Taylor's report recommended that their charges should be more realistic. We are therefore consulting the football authorities, the local authority associations and police representative bodies on the terms of the Home Office circular advising police authorities to recover as far as practicable the full cost of providing police officers inside football grounds.