HC Deb 29 April 1999 vol 330 cc237-8W
Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total expenditure on each allowance available to police officers, per police force and in total, in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [82456]

Mr. Boateng

The total expenditure on all allowances, per police force, for 1994–95 to 1996–97, is set out in the table. No analysis of individual allowances is made. Information for subsequent years is not available.

Police expenditure on allowances
£000
1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Avon and Somerset 10,224 8,315 7,869
Bedfordshire 3,803 3,682 3,575
Cambridgeshire 3,739 4,323 3,489
Cheshire 6,763 6,493 6,647
City of London 5,748 5,586 3,654
Cleveland 4,910 4,696 205
Cumbria 3,095 3,077 2,863
Derbyshire 8,689 8,438 8,164
Devon and Cornwall 12,473 12,257 11,175
Dorset 4,250 4,201 4,245
Durham 3,770 3,687 3,664
Dyfed Powys 2,413 2,281 2,277
Essex not available not available 12,225
Gloucestershire 4,275 4,211 4,037
Greater Manchester 22,078 20,722 19,730
Gwent 3,930 3,930 4,254
Hampshire 13,867 13,613 13,086
Hertfordshire 6,155 6,042 5,624
Humberside 7,957 7,833 7,408
Kent 12,670 12,353 11,805
Lancashire 8,308 8,010 7,656
Leicestershire 6,329 6,088 5,848
Lincolnshire not available 4,170 3,752
Merseyside 15,791 15,107 14,026
Metropolitan Police 150,836 150,178 142,967
Norfolk 6,096 6,008 5,234
North Wales 3,893 3,716 3,909
North Yorkshire 3,825 3,688 3,683
Northamptonshire 4,616 4,236 4,221
Northumbria 9,367 8,771 8,128
Nottinghamshire 7,824 7,518 7,107
South Wales 12,915 13,016 10,698
South Yorkshire 9,741 9,677 9,207
Police expenditure on allowances
£000
1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Staffordshire 7,473 7,399 7,385
Suffolk 5,118 5,004 4,733
Surrey 5,359 6,061 5,064
Sussex 9,241 9,053 9,049
Thames Valley Police 15,807 15,367 15,029
Warwickshire 4,554 4,550 4,591
West Mercia 7,691 7,531 7,283
West Midlands 25,897 24,747 23,515
West Yorkshire 17,481 17,003 16,631
Wiltshire 5,051 5,028 5,043
Total 484,022 477,666 460,755

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