HC Deb 13 July 1993 vol 228 cc425-6W
Mr. Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, in real terms and as a proportion of gross domestic product, the expenditure on police forces in England and Wales for each year since 1979.

Mr. Charles Wardle

The information is in the following table:

Total expenditure on the police
Year Real terms £ million at 1991–92 prices Proportion of GDP Per cent.
1978–79 3,099 0.66
1979–80 3,426 0.71
1980–81 3,455 0.74
1981–82 3,810 0.82
1982–83 3,932 0.83
1983–84 4,070 0.83
1984–85 4,452 0.89
1985–86 4,172 0.80
1986–87 4,346 0.80
1987–88 4,542 0.79
1988–89 4,690 0.79
1989–90 4,986 0.82
1990–91 5,129 0.87
1991–92 5,408 0.93
1992–93 5,664 10.98
1 Estimate.