HC Deb 24 February 2003 vol 400 c313W
17. Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on policing in North Yorkshire. [98774]

Mr. Denham

North Yorkshire Police had 1,417 officers on 31 March 2002, a record number. The force will receive over £70 million in general grant for 2003–04 and this will be supplemented by funding for a range of specific initiatives, including over £2 million from the Rural Policing Fund.