HC Deb 15 January 1997 vol 288 cc269-71W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the amount spent on external consultants by his Department's non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years. [10194]

Mr. Howard

[holding answer 13 January 1997]: The information requested is set out for executive non-departmental public bodies funded by the Home Office.

(2) if he will list the total external support including all police grants other than police rule 2 grant for additional police officers to be received by (a) each individual police authority, (b) each class of police authority and (c) all police authorities in (i) 1996–97 and (ii) 1997–98 and the change in each in pounds and as a percentage. [10305]

Mr. Maclean

[holding answer 13 January 1997]: The information requested is set out in the table.

Total external support1 including all grants Increase over 1996–97 Total external support excluding rule 2 grant Increase over 1996–97
Police authorities 1996–97 £ million 1997–98 £ million £ million Per cent. 1996–97 £ million 1997–98 £ million £ million Per cent.
Surrey 72.8 75.6 2.8 3.9 72.5 74.7 2.2 3.1
Sussex 125.6 128.1 2.6 2.0 125.0 126.5 1.4 1.2
Thames
Valley 168.0 171.3 3.3 2.0 167.2 168.9 1.7 1.0
Warwickshire 41.4 42.2 0.8 2.0 41.2 41.7 0.5 1.1
West Mercia 86.2 87.8 1.6 1.8 85.8 86.6 0.8 0.9
Wiltshire 51.1 52.1 1.0 1.9 50.9 51.5 0.5 1.0
Total English
shire
authorities 2,633 2,691 59 2.2 2,621 2,658 36 1.4
Greater
Manchester 308.7 315.2 6.5 2.1 307.8 312.3 4.6 1.5
Merseyside 203.4 207.7 4.3 2.1 202.9 206.2 3.3 1.6
Northumbria 169.6 173.7 4.1 2.4 169.0 172.1 3.0 1.8
South
Yorkshire 138.4 141.4 3.0 2.2 137.9 140.0 2.1 1.5
West
Midlands 310.0 317.4 7.3 2.4 309.0 314.4 5.4 1.7
West
Yorkshire 233.3 238.2 4.9 2.1 232.5 235.9 3.4 1.4
Total
metropolitan
authorities 1,363 1,394 30 2.2 1,359 1,381 22 1.6
Metropolitan
police2 1,518.8 1,548.3 29.5 1.9 1,515.5 1,538.2 22.8 1.5
City of
London
police3
Dyfed Powys 40.7 42.2 1.5 3.7 40.5 41.7 1.2 2.9
Gwent 54.6 56.5 1.9 3.5 54.4 55.9 1.5 2.8
North Wales 58.6 60.7 2.1 3.6 58.4 60 1.6 2.8
South Wales 132.7 137.2 4.5 3.4 132.3 135.9 3.6 2.7
Total Welsh authorities 287 297 10 3.5 286 294 8 2.8
Total (all authorities) 5,801 5,930 129 2.2 5,781 5,870 89 1.5
1 Includes principal police grant, additional rules 1, 2 and 3, police damping grant, revenue support grant and income from national non-domestic rates.
2 Includes provision for services other than police functions.
3 No separately identifiable figures exist for the City of London police.

All figures have been rounded from the original calculations. Figures for total external support were provided by the Department of the Environment.