§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total budget of(a) his Department and (b) its agencies is for official travel in 2002–03. [84931]
§ Hilary Benn[holding answer 3 December 2002]On current estimates the Home Office expects to spend £14,920,000 on official travel in 2002–03. The estimated expenditure of the agencies is as follows:
£ Forensic Science Service 1,949,000 Her Majesty's Prison Service 9,640,000 United Kingdom Passport Service 1,327,000 The above figures include the cost of subsistence allowance which cannot be identified separately without disproportionate cost. The Prison Service figure includes the travel and subsistence cost of prison staff
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Police transfers Strength at 31 March 1999 Transfers from force 1999–2000 Transfers out as proportion of strength (percentage) Transfers to force Net transfers Avon and Somerset 2,999 16 0.53 29 13 Bedfordshire 1,041 5 0.48 1 -4 Cambridgeshire 1,274 6 0.47 12 6 Cheshire 2,071 4 0.19 12 8 City of London 778 13 1.67 0 -13 Cleveland 1,416 1 0.07 9 8 Cumbria 1,126 6 0.53 4 -2 Derbyshire 1,759 6 0.34 10 4 Devon and Cornwall 2,887 8 0.28 19 11 Dorset 1,279 3 0.23 54 51 Durham 1,568 3 0.19 6 3 Dyfed-Powys 1,026 5 0.49 15 10 Essex1 2,891 10 0.35 23 13 Gloucestershire 1,104 3 0.27 13 10 Greater Manchester 6,810 15 0.22 25 10 Gwent 1,247 3 0.24 23 20 Hampshire 3,473 20 0.58 31 11 Hertfordshire1 1,724 23 1.33 25 2 Humberside 1,974 5 0.25 15 10 Kent 3,201 12 0.37 18 6 Lancashire 3,245 7 0.22 7 0 Leicestershire 1,993 13 0.65 8 -5 Lincolnshire 1,140 5 0.44 14 9 Merseyside 4,211 10 0.24 9 -1 Metropolitan Police1 26,073 244 0.94 36 -208 Norfolk 1,381 2 0.14 13 11 Northamptonshire 1,137 2 0.18 3 1 Northumbria 3,840 9 0.23 7 -2 North Wales 1,391 5 0.36 14 9 North Yorkshire 1,337 5 0.37 10 5 Nottinghamshire 2,225 10 0.45 9 -1 South Wales 2,981 11 0.37 7 -4 South Yorkshire 3,168 8 0.25 22 14 Staffordshire 2,238 2 0.09 2 0 Suffolk 1,190 5 0.42 2 -3 Surrey1 1,662 18 1.08 43 25 Sussex 2,847 21 0.74 21 0 escorting prisoners. The cost of escorts for asylum seekers is not included as they are provided by the private sector.