§ Mr. ShersbyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to announce the allocations of police grant for individual police authorities in 1995–96; and what are the implications of this for the overall funding of police authorities in that year.
§ Mr. HowardI have today put a copy of my proposals for the allocation of police grant for 1995–96 in the Library.
Proposals are also being announced today by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment for police standard spending assessments and special grants in England and by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales for police standard spending assessments in Wales.
The table below shows by police force area the total effect of all these proposals for 1995–96.
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Police Force Area 1995–96 Funding £ million English Forces Avon and Somerset 146.67 Bedfordshire 55.28 Cambridgeshire 62.24 Cheshire 93.49 Cleveland 70.17 Cumbria 54.33 Derbyshire 87.71 Devon and Cornwall 145.14 Dorset 62.24 Durham 68.09 Essex 146.27 Gloucestershire 55.93 Hampshire 168.17 Hertfordshire 87.24 Humberside 92.27 Kent 157.89 Lancashire 157.62 Leicestershire 89.34 Lincolnshire 57.08 Norfolk 70.36 North Yorkshire 66.71 Northamptonshire 55.80 Nottinghamshire 109.51 Staffordshire 100.51 Suffolk 57.95 Surrey 85.06 Sussex 144.78 Thames Valley 192.72 Warwickshire 47.67 West Mercia 97.22
Police Force Area 1995–96 Funding £ million Wiltshire 58.67 English Shires Total 2,949.13 English Metropolitan Forces Greater Manchester 324.38 Merseyside 214.73 Northumbria 177.97 South Yorkshire 146.22 West Midlands 326.90 West Yorkshire 249.30 English Metropolitan Total 1,439.50 Metropolitan Police 1,628.56 City of London 57.27 English Total 6,074.46 Welsh Forces Dyfed-Powys 44.22 Gwent 47.40 North Wales 62.85 South Wales 146.24 Welsh Total 300.71 Total 6,375.17 (1) Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10,000.