§ Mr. HoramTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money was available to be spent by the Metropolitan Police in each of the last 10 years. [82476]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 27 November 2002]Net revenue budget requirements for the Metropolitan Police Service in each of the last 10 years are set out in the table.
Year £ million 1993–94 782.0 1994–95 813.0 1995–961 1,661.0 1996–97 1,676.0 1997–98 1,720.0 1998–99 1,778.0 1999–2000 1,836.0 2000–0l2 1,830.0 2001–02 1,980.1 2002–033 2,037.7 1 Police grant was redefined to be within Budget Requirements from 1995–96. Before then, police grant was deducted from expenditure to show net expenditure. Since then, expenditure has been shown before deduction of police grant. 2The Metropolitan Police Service budget in 2000–01 is not directly comparable with previous years. Parts of the metropolitan police district transferred to Essex, Herts and Surrey from 1 April 2000. 3 The grant figure for 2002–03 is not directly comparable with that for 2001–02 owing to changes in funding for the National Crime Squad/National Criminal Intelligence Service. The figure for 2001–02 comparable with the 2002–03 provision would have been £1,941.9 million. Source:
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
§ Mr. HoramTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police support staff in the Metropolitan Police area there where in each of the last 10 years; and on what tasks they were employed. [82479]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 27 November 2002]The information requested in respect of the number of support staff in the Metropolitan Police is set out in the table which has been provided by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. During the period in question the Metropolitan Police undertook an outsourcing programme and a number of staff transferred to the private sector in areas such as Information Technology (IT) vehicle maintenance and property services. The 425W figures provided therefore include privately contracted staff as well as Metropolitan Police authority employed staff.
In response to what tasks they are employed on, civilians perform more than 150 different tasks and it is not possible to list them all. In general civilians employed in borough operational command units undertake personnel, finance or communications support. If employed in central departments they will cover issues such as recruitment, personnel, finance and procurement. In addition the Metropolitan Police Service employ a number of specialist civilian employees who undertake work such as IT specialists, Scenes of Crime examiners as well as traffic wardens, control room staff and station reception staff.
Year end Number of support staff 31 March 1993 14,663 31 March 1994 14,483 31 March 1995 14,337 31 March 1996 14,368 31 March 1997 13,492 31 March 1998 12,563 31 March 1999 11,390 31 March 2000 10,759 31 March 1901 10,197 31 March 1902 10,548