§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each police authority(a) the number of names submitted to him for appointment as independent members to serve from April 1999, (b) the number of existing police authority members included in those names, (c) the number of names returned by him to the police authority concerned and (d) the number of existing members of police authorities included in the list returned by him. [71191]
§ Mr. BoatengThe information is provided in the table for the 37 police authorities (established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996) to which I have returned names so far. I have added column(e) to show the number of independent member vacancies for each police authority.
Police authority (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Avon and Somerset 12 2 6 1 3 Bedfordshire 20 2 10 2 5 Cambridgeshire 20 3 10 2 5 Cheshire 20 2 10 2 5 Cumbria 16 4 8 2 5 Derbyshire 11 2 5 1 3 Devon and Cornwall 20 2 10 2 5 Dorset 20 5 10 3 5 Durham 16 3 8 2 4 Dyfed-Powys 23 5 11 3 6 Essex 16 3 8 2 4 Gloucestershire 20 2 10 2 5 Greater Manchester 24 3 12 2 6 Gwent 20 4 10 3 5 Hampshire 12 3 6 2 3 Hertfordshire 20 4 10 2 5 Humberside 16 3 8 2 4 Kent 16 3 8 2 4 Lancashire 12 1 6 1 3 Leicestershire 20 2 10 2 5 Norfolk 20 5 10 3 5 Northamptonshire 19 4 9 4 5 Northumbria 20 3 10 2 5 North Wales 20 3 10 2 5 North Yorkshire 16 3 8 1 4 Nottinghamshire 16 3 8 2 4 South Wales 16 3 8 2 4 South Yorkshire 20 5 10 3 5 Staffordshire 20 3 10 3 5 Surrey 20 4 10 2 5 Sussex 16 3 8 2 4 Thames Valley 20 3 10 2 5 Warwickshire 10 1 5 1 4 West Mercia 20 5 10 3 5 West Midlands 16 3 8 2 4 West Yorkshire 20 5 10 3 5 Wiltshire 20 3 10 2 5