§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on(a) the level of deducted grant taken from the Cheshire police authority 2001–02 baseline and (b) the relationship the deducted grant has with that attributable to National Crime Squad and National Criminal Intelligence Service funding. [31871]
§ Mr. DenhamThe 2001–02 grant baseline was notionally adjusted to allow like-for-like comparison with 2002–03, following the transfer of funding for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and the National Crime Squad (NCS) in 2002–03.
As a result, the notionally revised grant for Cheshire police authority for 2001–02 became £96.6 million. Actual grant was £99.2 million, a difference of £2.6 million.
The levies paid by Cheshire in 2001–02 for NCS and NCIS were £2.6 million.
Cheshire police authority will receive grant in 2002–03 of £99.0 million—an increase of 2.5 per cent. on the adjusted figure for 2001–02. No police authority will receive less than a 2.3 per cent. increase on the adjusted notional figure.