§ Mr. MillerTo 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 ClarkeMy 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.
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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.