§ Mr. Robert BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set out the amounts earmarked by each police authority in England for pension payments and represented as a percentage proportion of their overall budgets.
§ Mr. HowardInformation on local authority budget provision for pensions is not held centrally. The following table gives outturn information for 1992–93.
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Police authority Net pensions expenditure1 (Police and Civilians) £000s Net pensions expenditure as a percentage of net current expenditure2 Avon and Somerset 11,978 9.6 Bedfordshire 2,876 6.5 Cambridgeshire 4,131 8.3 Cheshire 6,840 9.4 Cleveland 6,647 11.1 Cumbria 5,181 10.5 Derbyshire 6,796 9.0 Devon and Cornwall 11,380 8.8 Dorset 4,768 8.6 Durham 6,045 11.4 Essex 9,458 7.5 Gloucestershire 4,145 8.6 Hampshire 10,727 7.9 Hertfordshire 4,851 7.1 Humberside 7,644 9.1 Kent 12,250 8.9 Lancashire 13,889 10 8 Leicestershire 8,433 11.6 Lincolnshire 5,355 10.5 Norfolk 4,877 8.3 Northamptonshire 3,929 7.8 North Yorkshire 7,250 12.4 Nottinghamshire 8,248 9.2 Staffordshire 11,038 12.6 Suffolk 3,671 7.2 Surrey 6,320 8.9 Sussex 11,763 10.2 Thames Valley 8,983 5.6 Warwickshire 2,419 5.7 West Mercia 5,608 6.8 Wiltshire 3,196 6.2 Greater Manchester 27,501 10.1 Merseyside 20,496 10.8 Northumbria 16,063 11.8 South Yorkshire 10,802 9.3 West Midlands 23,113 8.1 West Yorkshire 26,940 12.9 City of London 3,607 8.2 Metropolitan Police3 136,088 9.4 Total England 485,307 9.4 1 Figures are net of pension contributions, transfer values and recharges to other authorities.
2 Current expenditure net of pensions income, sales, fees and charges, interest and other receipts.
3 Metropolitan Police figures are estimates only.