§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the budget allocated to policing Leicestershire for each of the years from 1979 to 1990, together with the percentage increase or decrease from year to year over this period, discounting inflation.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe budget of a police force is set by its police authority. Expenditure on the Leicestershire police force between 1979–80 and 1989–90, in cash and real terms, is set out below. During this period, the Home Office paid specific grant on the net expenditure of provincial police forces at the rate of 50 per cent. up to 1985–86 and 51 per cent. from 1986–87.
Year Actual expenditure Expenditure in real terms1 Percentage year on year real terms increase £ £ 1979–80 18,688,636 37,501,025 — 1980–81 22,885,914 38,808,102 3.49 1981–82 27,538,410 42,585,609 9.73 1982–83 30,829,200 44,512,915 4.53 1983–84 36,602,856 50,513,174 13.48 1984–85 48,046,872 63,101,668 24.92 1985–86 37,382,252 46,564,838 -26.21 1986–87 41,810,682 50,336,715 8.10 1987–88 45,463,839 51,962,830 3.23 1988–89 49,660,357 52,825,109 1.66 1989–90 57,279,465 57,279,465 8.43 1 At 1989–90 prices using GDP deflator. The real terms increase in expenditure between 1979–80 and 1989–90 was 53 per cent.