§ Mr. DevlinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list(a) the current number of police officers per 1,000 of the population and (b) the current amount spent per annum on the police per person, in rank order for each (i) police authority and (ii) county police authority in England including average figures.
§ Mr. MacleanThe latest available information for police to population ratios can be found in the appendix to the annual report of Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary for 1993. Details of police expenditure per head of population are set out in the table:
Police expenditure per head of population Estimated expenditure 1994–95 £000 Population 19931 Average expenditure per head £000 City of London 56,186 4,000 14,047 Metropolitan 1,638,659 7,420,000 221 Merseyside 222,217 1,441,000 154 Greater Manchester 330,361 2,579,000 128 Cleveland 71,037 559,000 127 West Midlands 323,607 2,634,000 123 Northumbria 176,002 1,445,000 122 West Yorkshire 240,140 2,102,000 114 Wiltshire 66,362 583,000 114 Cumbria 55,697 490,000 114 Surrey 86,912 770,000 113 South Yorkshire 145,647 1,306,000 112 Nottinghamshire 112,458 1,028,000 109 Humberside 95,452 884,000 108 Lancashire 151,890 1,421,000 107 Kent 160,948 1,540,000 105 Gloucestershire 56,084 544,000 103 Durham 62,578 608,000 103 Warwickshire 50,510 494,000 102 Avon and Somerset 147,302 1,447,000 102 Lincolnshire 60,485 601,000 101 Thames Valley 198,813 2,001,000 99 Essex 147,572 1,489,000 99 Northamptonshire 58,624 592,000 99 Dorset 65,161 667,000 98 Bedfordshire 52,463 539,000 97 Staffordshire 101,365 1,054,000 96 Devon and Cornwall 143,917 1,526,000 94 Hertfordshire 79,097 849,000 93 Derbyshire 87,227 951,000 92 North Yorkshire 66,156 722,000 92 Sussex 130,749 1,440,000 91 Hampshire 155,219 1,718,000 90 Cambridgeshire 61,216 683,000 90 Suffolk 57,426 646,000 89 West Mercia 98,399 1,109,000 89 Leicestershire 80,672 910,000 89 Cheshire 85,533 972,000 88 Norfolk 66,561 765,000 87 1 Population figures are provided by the OPCS. 1993 is the latest available estimate.