HC Deb 28 January 1999 vol 324 cc375-6W
Mr. Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing the percentage of revenue budget apportioned to the payment of police pensions for each police authority in England and Wales. [67790]

Mr. Boateng

Estimates of police pension costs for 1998–99 are set out in the table.

Estimates of net police pension costs—1998–99
£000
Police authority Net pension costs Net revenue expenditure Percentage of net expenditure
Avon and Somerset 26,877 167,417 16.1
Bedfordshire 6,982 62,317 11.2
Cambridgeshire 8,463 71,230 11.9
Cheshire 11,580 106,523 10.9
City of London 8,291 60,862 13.6
Cleveland 11,108 82,282 13.5
Cumbria 8,715 63,000 13.8
Estimates of net police pension costs—1998–99
£000
Police authority Net pension costs Net revenue expenditure Percentage of net expenditure
Derbyshire 13,788 100,894 13.7
Devon and Cornwall 23,165 167,117 13.9
Dorset 9,486 73,497 12.9
Durham 10,166 78,103 13.0
Dyfed Powys 6,926 52,609 13.2
Essex 19,361 168,889 11.5
Gloucestershire 9,138 63,780 14.3
Greater Manchester 59,380 371,497 16.0
Gwent 7,712 67,919 11.4
Hampshire 20,009 190,920 10.5
Hertfordshire 9,499 97,859 9.7
Humberside 13,584 111,587 12.2
Kent 20,867 178,916 11.7
Lancashire 24,802 178,051 13.9
Leicestershire 12,566 102,707 12.2
Lincolnshire 10,057 68,322 14.7
Merseyside 37,483 245,277 15.3
Metropolitan Police 210,438 1,778,001 11.8
Norfolk 10,148 82,339 12.3
North Wales 11,138 75,075 14.8
North Yorkshire 12,162 75,638 16.1
Northamptonshire 7,067 67,134 10.5
Northumbria 31,500 205,380 15.3
Nottinghamshire 16,355 124,828 13.1
South Wales 24,861 163,430 15.2
South Yorkshire 17,248 168,205 10.3
Staffordshire 22,383 122,540 18.3
Suffolk 8,385 65,785 12.7
Surrey 11,021 90,738 12.1
Sussex 24,846 162,664 15.3
Thames Valley Police 20,306 221,147 9.2
Warwickshire 6,201 53,617 11.6
West Mercia 12,458 112,879 11.0
West Midlands 42,831 372,296 11.5
West Yorkshire 37,555 280,739 13.4
Wiltshire 7,480 66,666 11.2
Total 924,388 7,220,676 12.8

Note:

Taken from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Police Statistics Estimates.