§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the standard spending assessment in respect of the police service for each local authority in 1992–93 and 1993–94; and if he will estimate the effect of this standard spending assessment if(a) the 1987 system of needs assessment and (b) the safety net arrangements introduced in 1988 had still been in place.
§ Mr. Charles WardlePolice elements of English local authorities' standard spending assessments for 1992–93 and 1993–94 are given in the table. No figures are shown for Wales because Welsh local authorities' standard spending assessments do not identify separate elements for individual services such as police.
Information on what current police standard spending assessments would be if they were calculated by reference to the distribution formula which was discontinued in 1987 is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
£ million Police authority 1992–93 1993–94 Avon and Somerset1 63.999 66.489 Bedfordshire 25.127 26.498 Cambridgeshire 26.516 27.547 Cheshire 39.805 41,.353 City of London 23.187 26.570 Cleveland 31.139 32.350 Cumbria 24.609 25.566 Derbyshire 38.354 39.846 Devon and Corwall1 60.620 62.929 Dorset 26.993 28.043 Durham 28.796 29.917 Essex 64.662 67.767 Greater Manchester 144.376 149.884 Gloucestershire 24.546 25.501 Hampshire1 71.551 75.453 Hertfordshire 38.803 40.290 Humberside 42.168 43.809 Kent 68.381 72.419 Lancashire 66.943 69.547 Leicestershire 38.416 39.910 Lincolnshire 25.002 25.975 Merseyside 97.563 101.359 Metropolitan Police 729.511 761.712 Norfolk 29.978 31.144 Northamptonshire 24.671 25.630 Northumbria 74.676 77.581 North Yorkshire 29.398 30.541 Nottinghamshire 48.595 50.485 South Yorkshire 62.838 65.282 Staffordshire 45.921 47.707 Suffolk 25.562 26.557 Surrey 39.239 40.503 Sussex 1 60.754 64.003 Thames Valley1 85.179 90.575 Warwickshire 21.520 22.443 West Mercia 1 42,562 44.218 West Midlands 143.090 148.656 West Yorkshire 109.774 114.045 Wiltshire 26.495 27.763 1 Combined police authority. Figures shown are the sums of police elements of constituent county councils' SSAs.