§ Mr. DuncanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how he plans to allocate police grant in 1997–98. [13628]
§ Mr. MacleanI have laid before the House the Police Grant Report 1997–98. This should be read in conjunction with, for England, the Local Government Finance Report and the Special Grant Report (No. 23) and, for Wales, with the Local Government Finance Report (Wales) 1997–98 and the Special Grant Report (Wales) 1997.
Funding figures for each police authority are set out in the table.
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£ million Police authority 1996–97 Funding1 1997–98 Funding1 English shire forces Avon and Somerset 154.6 158.7 Bedfordshire 57.3 58.9 Cambridgeshire 66.4 68.2 Cheshire 98.5 101.1 Cleveland 73.3 75.2 Cumbria 57.1 58.6 Derbyshire 92.5 95.3 Devon and Cornwall 153.4 158.6 Dorset 64.9 66.6 Durham 71.5 73.3 Essex 151.7 155.9 Gloucestershire 58.5 60.1 Hampshire 175.3 180.0 Hertfordshire 89.9 92.4 Humberside 103.1 105.9 Kent 163.9 168.5 Lancashire 163.5 167.7 Leicestershire 94.8 97.3 Lincolnshire 59.0 61.5 Norfolk 76.0 78.1 North Yorkshire 69.7 71.9 Northamptonshire 58.4 60.0 Nottinghamshire 115.2 119.3 Staffordshire 108.9 111.8 Suffolk 61.7 63.4 Surrey 88.0 91.8 Sussex 151.1 155.2 Thames Valley 202.6 208.2 Warwickshire 49.2 50.6 West Mercia 103.5 106.3 Wiltshire 60.7 62.2
£ million Police authority 1996–97 Funding1 1997–98 Funding1 English metropolitan forces Greater Manchester 342.5 351.2 Merseyside 221.9 227.3 Northumbria 188.2 193.4 South Yorkshire 154.7 158.8 West Midlands 344.0 353.4 West Yorkshire 260.9 267.5 London forces Metropolitan police2 1,649.6 1,688.0 City of London3 59.1 61.6 English total 6,314.9 6,483.9 Welsh forces Dyfed-Powys 48.6 49.9 Gwent 62.8 64.5 North Wales 69.3 71.2 South Wales 151.1 155.1 Welsh total 331.7 340.8 Total 6,646.7 6,824.7 1 Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Funding is the sum of all police grant, standard spending assessments and damping grant. 2 Figure for the Metropolitan police does not include funding allocated to the Receiver under the other services block SSA for school crossing patrols, magistrates courts and the probation service. 3 Figure for the City includes police SSA and grant, but excludes other SSAs such as capital financing which are allocated to the common council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions.