HL Deb 02 February 1998 vol 585 cc103-4WA
Baroness Hilton of Eggardon

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How they plan to allocate police grants in 1998–99. [HL431]

Lord Williams of Mostyn

My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has today laid before another place thePolice Grant Report (England and Wales) 1998–99. The report sets out his determination for 1998–99 of the aggregate amount of grants that he proposes to pay under section 46(2) of the Police Act 1996, and the amount to be paid to each police authority including the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. Allocations for each police authority are set out in the table. The table shows allocations approved by Parliament for 1997–98.

Police Authority 1997–98Allocation1million 1998–99Allocation1£ million
English Shire forces
Avon & Somerset 158.7 164.3
Bedfordshire 58.9 60.9
Cambridgeshire 68.2 71.9
Cheshire 101.1 104.7
Cleveland 75.2 80.4
Cumbria 58.6 59.0
Derbyshire 95.3 97.7
Devon & Cornwall 158.6 167.4
Dorset 66.6 67.8
Durham 73.3 78.1
Essex 155.9 158.4
Gloucestershire 60.1 61.5
Hampshire 180.0 189.1
Hertfordshire 92.4 94.1
Humberside 105.9 110.6
Kent 168.5 178.9
Lancashire 167.7 174.9
Leicestershire 97.3 99.1
Lincolnshire 61.5 60.7
Norfolk 78.1 80.9
North Yorkshire 71.9 75.6

Police Authority 1997–98Allocation1£ million 1998–99Allocation1million
Northamptonshire 60.0 62.8
Nottinghamshire 119.3 123.0
Staffordshire 111.8 111.1
Suffolk 63.4 66.0
Surrey 91.8 84.2
Sussex 155.2 162.6
Thames Valley 208.2 219.3
Warwickshire 50.6 51.1
West Mercia 106.3 110.0
Wiltshire 62.2 63.4
English Metropolitan forces
Greater Manchester 351.2 364.0
Merseyside 227.3 233.3
Northumbria 193.4 205.4
South Yorkshire 158.8 165.4
West Midlands 353.4 371.9
West Yorkshire 267.5 279.5
London forces
Metropolitan Police2 1,688.0 1,715.3
City of London3 61.6 57.1
English Total 6,483.9 6,682.6
Welsh forces
Dyfed-Powys 49.9 51.1
Gwent 64.5 67.3
North Wales 71.2 73.2
South Wales 155.1 161.3
Welsh total 340. 353.0
Total 6,824.7 7,035.5
Notes:
1 Rounded to the nearest £100,000. The Allocation is the sum of all police grant, SSAs 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 e.g. Capital Financing which are allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions.