HC Deb 27 October 1995 vol 264 c841W
Mr. David Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been(a) the increase in Government funding for the police in Dorset and (b) the inflation rate since (i) 1979 and (ii) 1990; and if he will make a statement. [38971]

Mr. Maclean

Expenditure on the police in Dorset has increased since 1978–79 by 515 per cent. and since 1989–90 by 46 per cent. Estimated rates of inflation over the periods in question are:

  1. (i) 1978–79 to 1995–96: 200 per cent.
  2. (ii) 1989–90 to 1995–96: 29 per cent.