Premium Telephone Numbers

HC Deb 23 January 1996 vol 270 cc115-6W

Mr. Allason

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidelines he has issued to police

Police force	Specials1	Regulars2	Percentage3	Population (000's)4	Specials per 5 thousand population5
Avon and Somerset	676	2,986	22.6	1,456	2.3
Bedfordshire	196	1,116	17.6	543	1.8
Cambridgeshire	264	1,254	21.1	688	1.9
Cheshire	269	1,950	13.8	976	1.4
City of London	81	859	9.3	5	81.0
Cleveland	204	1,429	14.3	560	1.8
Cumbria	221	1,143	19.3	490	2.3
Derbyshire	440	1,762	25.0	954	2.3
Devon and Cornwall	1,079	2,871	37,6	1,530	1.9
Dorset	230	1,272	18.1	672	1.7
Durham	192	1,376	14.1	608	1.6
Dyfed-Powys	304	977	31.1	473	3.2
Essex	548	2,897	18.9	1,497	1.8
Gloucestershire	330	1,141	28.9	550	3.0
Greater Manchester	749	7,026	10.7	2,578	1.5
Gwent	129	1,006	12.8	462	1.4

forces on the use of premium telephone numbers for services to the public. [10256]

Mr. Maclean

None.