§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the estimated net changes in police recruitment are in each force and in total in(a) the current year and (b) the next two years based on information given by forces in bids for the Crime Fighting Fund and funding allocations made under the fund; and if he will make a statement. [148014]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeIn their bids for a share of the recruitment scheme of the Crime Fighting Fund (CFF), made in January 2000, forces provided information on their projected recruitment in each of the years 2000–01 to 2002–03.
Net changes to that previously planned recruitment by forces will result from the allocation of extra recruits from the CFF. The net change is expected to total 9,000 recruits over the three years 2000–01 to 2002–03. The table shows the current force allocations from the CFF for each year.
Some forces have asked to defer part of their CFF allocation into the next financial year and other forces have asked to bring forward CFF recruitment from next financial year into this year. In total, forces have been given authority for a net deferral of up to 250 CFF recruits from 2000–01 to 2001–02.
The current allocations for each force vary, however, with changes to the forces' recruitment plans. The latest estimates, shown in the table, include an expected net deferral of 210 CFF recruits from 2000–01 to 2001–02.
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CFF Allocation 2000–01 CFF Allocation 2001–02 CFF Allocation 2002–03 Avon and Somerset 67 51 77 Bedfordshire 28 31 31 Cambridgeshire 26 34 24 Cheshire 28 69 50 City of London 0 23 15 Cleveland 20 27 27 Cumbria 25 23 26 Derbyshire 65 39 54 Devon and Cornwall 77 79 79 Dorset 46 9 30 Durham 32 27 38 Dyfed-Powys 25 38 16 Essex 0 132 65 Gloucestershire 29 35 22 Greater Manchester 131 256 201 Gwent 46 3 32 Hampshire 20 139 84 Hertfordshire 0 70 37 Humberside 47 41 49 Kent 112 62 76 Lancashire 83 69 74 Leicestershire 46 56 38 Lincolnshire 29 18 29 Merseyside 125 93 114 Metropolitan 548 814 682 Norfolk 41 41 31 North Wales 34 32 38 North Yorkshire 20 23 25 Northamptonshire 64 0 26 Northumbria 71 101 82 Nottinghamshire 52 53 52
CFF Allocation 2000–01 CFF Allocation 2001–02 CFF Allocation 2002–03 South Wales 59 49 50 South Yorkshire 67 61 69 Staffordshire 49 51 46 Suffolk 31 21 31 Surrey 94 0 40 Sussex 51 82 73 Thames Valley 42 177 106 Warwickshire 35 0 24 West Mercia 70 39 43 West Midlands 222 130 171 West Yorkshire 107 91 94 Wiltshire 26 21 29 Total 2,790 3,210 3,000 Note
Allocations may differ from previously published figures, as they include agreed acceleration or deferral of CFF recruits between 2000–01 and 2001–02. In the case of the Metropolitan police agreement has been given to defer up to 155 CFF recruits from 2000–01 into 2001–02, but the force now expects to defer only 115.