§ Mr. CawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how he plans to allocate police grant in 1998–99. [27704]
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§ Mr. StrawI laid before the House yesterday the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 1998–99 (HC 492). The Report sets out my determination for 1998–99 of the aggregate amount of grants that I propose 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 also shows allocation approved by Parliament for 1997–98.
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£ million Police authority 1997–98 allocation1 1998–99 allocation1 English Shire forces Avon and 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 and 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 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 351.2 364.8 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 340.8 353.0 Total 6,824.7 7,035.5 1Rounded 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.
3Figure 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.