HC Deb 28 March 2001 vol 365 cc711-3W
Ms Glenda Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list funding allocations from his Department to(a) the Metropolitan police and (b) the Borough of Camden for each year since May 1997. [150960]

Mr. Charles Clarke [holding answer 26 February 2001]

The Home Department has made, or for 2001–02 will make, the following funding to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in each year singe April 1997:

Home Office specific grant
Financial year £
1997–98 900,344,546
1998–99 931,229,096
1999–2000 949,070,118
2000–01 956,094,652
2000–02 1,007,548,948

In addition, Revenue Support Grant is paid by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).

Loan charge grant
Financial year £
1997–98 6,049,591
1998–99 5,916,813
1999–2000 4,783,118
2000–01 4,331,583
2001–02 4,387,349

Capital grant
Financial year £
1997–98 24,774,000
1998–99 21,892,000
1999–2000 21,892,000
2000–01 22,554,000
2001–02 22,803,000

Crime Fighting Fund
Financial year £
2000–01 12,004,571
2001–02 37,365,685

An allowance for training costs of £7,000 per new Metropolitan Police Service recruit is included in the figure for each year.

Payments due in 2001–02 will change to reflect the actual pattern of recruitment, if it is different from the even distribution assumed for the put poses of the table. The Metropolitan Police Service is deferring 108 Crime Fighting Fund recruits from its 2000–01 allocation into 2001–02.

Other Grants
Date £
24 August 1999 Beacon scheme 94.000
3 October 2000 Robbery grant 9,100,000
4 December 2000 Execution of warrants1 924,557
1Responsibility for the execution of warrants was to transfer to the Lord Chancellor's Department in October 2000. The transfer was deferred until April 2001 and appropriate grant was distributed to all police authorities.

Firearms Grant
Date £
1997–98 133,128
1998–99 44,772

Grants were paid to each force to help meet costs incurred in collection and destruction of handguns.

Crime Reduction Programme
Date £
1999–2000 to 2001–02 8,395,460

This is the total allocation to the Metropolitan Police Service under the Reducing Burglary Initiative (£6.84 million) and the Targeted Policing Initiative (£1.55 million) rounds 1 and 2.

Allocation of funds within the Metropolitan police area is a matter for the Commissioner. The Commissioner has informed me that the budget provided to the local commander for the borough of Camden is to help meet the priorities identified in the Metropolitan Police Service policing and performance plan such as the reduction of crime and disorder and diversity objectives.

Camden borough Budgets
Date £
1997–98 34,160,000
1998–99 34,140,000
1999–2000 35,342,000
2000–01 36,482,000

The devolved budget for the borough of Camden in 2001–02 is not yet available.

In addition, policing in Camden, and in all other boroughs, draws on a large number of specialist services and support controlled centrally such as scientific support, murder review, inspection and review, territorial policing support, public order, specialist search dogs and criminal justice.

From the Crime Reduction Programme provision, several schemes are associated with the borough of Camden—the Camden Safety Net violence against women project (£275,000); Camden Town centre extension and centralised control room (£598,000); a further three reductions in burglary schemes (£1517,000). Camden will also benefit from a portion of £598,000 allocated to a multi-borough project covering Camden, Islington and Southwark under the Targeted Policing Initiative and from £287,000 allocated to a scheme of the Targeted Policing Initiative that will benefit all boroughs.

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