§ Mr. GregoryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the expenditure and achievements of his Department in north Yorkshire during 1991; and what was the comparable position between June 1979 and May 1980.
§ Mr. Kenneth Baker[holding answer 11 February 1992]: The readily available information is as follows. The Home Office pays specific grant on a proportion of the county council's expenditure on the police, magistrates courts and probation services and on civil defence. The proportion varies according to the service. My Department also pays grant under section 1I of the Local Government Act 1966 to enable the county council to employ additional staff to meet the special needs of local communities of Commonwealth origins. Information on the payment of these grants, and on Home Office expenditure on Her Majesty's prison service establishments in north Yorkshire, and on the emergency planning college at Easingwold, is as follows.
Specific grant paid in respect of expenditure in financial year £000s 1979–80 1991–921 Police2 8,322 28,869 Magistrates courts3 6 2,478 Probation3 6 2,185 Civil Defence4 6 368 Section 115 0 16 1Estimated. 2Rate of Grant: 50 per cent. in 1979–80, 51 per cent. in 1991–92 3 Rate of Grant: 80 per cent. 4 Rate of Grant: mainly 100 per cent. 5Rate of Grant: 75 per cent. 6 Not available. Net operating costs of the two prison service establishments in north Yorkshire in 1990–91: £6.169 million.
588WEstimated expenditure on emergency planning college in 1991–92: £2.758 million.