HC Deb 13 June 1991 vol 192 cc621-2W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department by what percentage police pay, pensions and allowances have been raised higher or lower than the rate of inflation for each year since 1979.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The information requested in respect of pay is set out in the table and shows the minimum and maximum of the salary scales of a police constable. Equivalent figures for the various allowances to which police officers are also entitled can be obtained only at a disproportionate cost. Police pensions are uprated annually in line with movements in the retail prices index and have thus kept pace with inflation over this period.

Minimum Maximum
1979
Salaries 4.086 6.471
Percentage change (13.0) (18.6)
1980
Salaries 4.956 7.848
Percentage change (2.8) (2.8)
1981
Salaries 5.610 8.883
Percentage change (1.2) (1.2)
1982
Salaries 6.189 9.798
Percentage change (1.6) (1.6)
1983
Salaries 6.708 10.620
Percentage change (3.6) (3.6)
1984
Salaries 6.708 11.193
Percentage change (-4.7) (0.4)
1985
Salaries 7.752 12.936
Percentage change (1.3) (1.0)
1986
Salaries 7.752 12.936
Percentage change (1.1) (5.7)
1987
Salaries 8.352 13.938

Minimum Maximum
Percentage change (3.4) (3.4)
1988
Salaries 8.352 15.125
Percentage change (-4.7) (3.4)
1989
Salaries 9.900 16.521
Percentage change (10.0) (1.4)
1990
Salaries 10.886 18.132
Percentage change (1.0) (1.0)

Notes:

Salaries are based on 1 September for each year.

Figures in brackets show yearly percentage change in real terms.