HC Deb 20 July 2000 vol 354 cc320-1W
Mr. Miller

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how he intends to allocate in the current year the money recently agreed for police forces in rural areas. [132066]

Mr. Charles Clarke

My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in his reply to my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Bradley) of 15 June 2000,Official Report, column 714W, announced provision of £15 million, made available in the Budget, for assistance to police forces in rural areas this year.

The allocations for 2000–01 are shown in the table.

Police authority £
Avon and Somerset 494,892
Bedfordshire 81,390
Cambridgeshire 561,585
Cheshire 115,058
City of London 0
Cleveland 0
Cumbria 690,613
Derbyshire 208,347
Devon and Cornwall 1,554,673
Dorset 221,858
Durham 124,270
Dyfed Powys 1,297,570
Essex 251,315
Gloucestershire 387,093
Greater Manchester 0
Gwent 102,895
Hampshire 110,175
Hertfordshire 0
Humberside 357,640
Kent 298,863
Lancashire 32,228
Leicestershire 216,758
Lincolnshire 985,951
Merseyside 0
Metropolitan 0
Norfolk 1,036,848
North Wales 770,617
North Yorkshire 1,005,224
Northamptonshire 350,892
Northumbria 0
Nottinghamshire 0
South Wales 0
South Yorkshire 0
Staffordshire 138,358
Suffolk 711,353
Surrey 5,463
Sussex 273,834
Thames Valley 629,559
Warwickshire 282,108
West Mercia 1,157,670

Police authority £
West Midlands 0
West Yorkshire 0
Wiltshire 544,900
All police authorities 15,000,000

The sums have been apportioned on the basis of population weighted by a sparsity score. Payment will be made shortly.

Financial provision for future years has been included in the Spending Review 2000 settlement.