HC Deb 07 February 2000 vol 344 cc46-8W
Mr. Fraser

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures he is taking to increase the funding for police constabularies broken down by each constabulary in England and Wales. [108286]

Mr. Charles Clarke

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced in his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Mr. Campbell), on 27 January 2000,Official Report, columns 241–42W, the funding allocations for police authorities in England for 2000–01. Allocations for 2000–01 for each police authority in England and Wales are set out in the table.

Funding for police authorities will increase by £202 million to a total of £7,415.3 million in 2000–01. In addition, the Government are making available £35 million in 2000–01 as part of the crime fighting fund to recruit 5,000 police officers over and above the number forces would otherwise have recruited over the three years from April 2000. Additional funding will be available in the following two years. All forces will receive a share.

£ million
Police authority 1999–2000 allocation1 2000–2001 allocation1
English Shire forces
Avon and Somerset 168.4 173.7
Bedfordshire 61.4 64.1
Cambridgeshire 74.8 77.2
Cheshire 109.0 111.9
Cleveland 81.7 84.7
Cumbria 60.1 62.2
Derbyshire 102.1 105.4
Devon and Cornwall 174.3 178.9
Dorset 70.1 72.4
Durham 81.3 83.9
Essex 163.0 174.8
Gloucestershire 62.4 63.5
Hampshire 194.5 202.7
Hertfordshire 100.0 117.2
Humberside 113.0 116.9
Kent 183.1 191.2
Lancashire 178.2 185.3
Leicestershire 102.3 105.6
Linconshire 63.4 65.4
Norfolk 83.4 86.5
North Yorkshire 77.6 79.7
Northamptonshire 65.3 67.7
Nottinghamshire 126.3 130.0
Staffordshire 113.0 116.8
Suffolk 68.6 70.9
Surrey 91.9 112.8
Sussex 166.4 172.4
Thames Valley 224.6 231.7
Warwickshire 52.2 54.3
West Mercia 113.0 117.2
Wiltshire 64.9 66.7
English Metropolitan forces
Greater Manchester 375.7 386.1
Merseyside 236.3 242.3
Northumbria 213.0 218.4
South Yorkshire 171.3 177.2
West Midlands 380.6 392.7
West Yorkshire 286.3 297.1
London forces
Metropolitan police2,4 1,743.9 1,731.2
City of London3 55.4 56.4
English Total 6,852.8 7,045.1
Welsh forces
Dyfed-Powys 51.7 53.2
Gwent 69.7 71.9
North Wales 75.5 77.5
South Wales 163.8 167.6
Welsh Total 360.8 370.2
Total 7,213.6 7,415.3
1 Rounded to the nearest £100,000. The Allocation is the sum of: Police Grant, Transitional Grant, Police SSA, Capital Finance SSA, SSA Reduction Grant and Central Support Protection Grant.
2 Figure for the Metropolitan Police does not include funding allocated to the Receiver under the Environmental, Protective and Cultural Services SSA for school crossing patrols, Magistrates' Courts and the Probation Service. It does include its Special Payment.
3 Figure for the City includes Police SSA. Grant and SSA Reduction Grant, but excludes other SSAs (eg Capital Financing) and Central Support Protection Grant. These are allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions.

4 These authorities will be affected by the changes to police force boundaries around London on 1 April 2000. To provide comparison, indicative 1999–2000 totals for these authorities as on the new boundaries are Essex: £169.8 million, Hertfordshire: £114.3 million, Surrey: £113.6 million and Metropolitan Police: £1,701.9 million.

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