Sex Offences

HC Deb 27 June 2001 vol 370 c99W

Mr. Hawkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library the responses to his Department's consultation on reform of the law on sex offences, "Setting the Boundaries". [192]

Beverley Hughes

[holding answer 25 June 2001]We received over 650 responses to "Setting the Boundaries". We are currently assessing the responses and now considering how best to summarise them.

Police authority net pension costs as a percentage of net expenditure, 1996–97 to 2000–01
Percentage
	Proportion of expenditure on pensions
Police authority	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01
Avon and Somerset	14.5	15.6	14.1	14.8	16.2
Bedfordshire	9.6	11.5	12.6	11.9	12.5
Cambridgeshire	11.0	11.9	12.0	12.3	13.0
Cheshire	8.3	11.1	9.9	11.1	11.3
City of London	11.6	12.7	18.1	14.2	15.4
Cleveland	11.9	10.9	13.8	14.5	15.2
Cumbria	12.9	12.8	14.9	14.8	15.4
Derbyshire	12.0	12.8	11.7	11.3	13.4
Devon and Cornwall	12.6	13.5	14.0	14.3	14.0
Dorset	11.2	13.0	13.1	14.5	14.0
Durham	11.8	16.5	11.1	12.6	12.0
Dyfed Powys	12.3	12.0	13.0	12.9	13.2
Essex	9.5	10.6	12.4	12.0	11.3
Gloucestershire	13.7	13.2	13.5	13.4	14.2
Greater Manchester	13.9	16.5	15.6	15.9	15.2
Gwent	9.8	11.6	9.9	11.3	10.8
Hampshire	9.5	9.6	10.1	11.5	10.8
Hertfordshire	8.8	9.5	9.2	11.2	9.8
Humberside	10.9	13.2	12.8	13.3	14.1
Kent	8.9	11.3	11.2	11.3	12.5
Lancashire	13.6	14.2	12.8	12.6	13.5
Leicestershire	11.1	11.9	11.3	11.5	12.1
Lincolnshire	12.5	13.8	14.6	15.3	16.3
Merseyside	15.8	14.9	14.5	15.3	15.7
Metropolitan police	10.1	11.4	12.7	11.7	13.3
Norfolk	12.8	13.2	12.2	11.6	12.6
North Wales	12.7	13.6	14.5	13.7	14.7
Northamptonshire	9.6	12.4	11.0	10.7	11.9
North Yorkshire	14.1	14.5	13.8	16.5	16.3
Northumbria	14.6	15.4	14.9	13.9	14.3
Nottinghamshire	11.1	13.7	13.4	13.8	13.7
South Wales	13.8	17.6	15.2	14.3	15.3
South Yorkshire	8.5	12.1	9.4	10.7	10.6
Staffordshire	14.3	17.3	13.7	15.6	14.8
Suffolk	13.2	13.3	13.0	14.9	13.5
Surrey	9.7	13.7	11.3	10.3	9.3
Sussex	12.8	13.3	14.2	14.8	16.0
Thames Valley	8.5	9.8	9.4	9.2	9.8
Warwickshire	8.9	13.9	13.0	14.5	15.3
West Mercia	10.2	11.0	12.4	12.2	13.3
West Midlands	10.2	12.2	11.5	11.3	11.9
West Yorkshire	11.5	13.0	13.2	14.1	14.2
Wiltshire	13.0	10.4	10.9	11.1	11.1
Total England and Wales	11.3	12.7	12.7	12.7	13.3
Source:
CIPFA Actuals 1996–97 to 1999–2000 and Estimates 2000–01