§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to provide central Government funds to meet the costs of police activity for events other than those of a routine local nature.
§ Mr. Peter LloydNo. Central Government already meet a large proportion of policing costs, either directly through specific grant or indirectly through the revenue support grant system. It would be neither practicable nor desirable to extend further central funding in the way suggested.