§ Mr. SimmondsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the projected funding per head of population for each police authority in England and Wales is in 2003–04. [138231]
§ Ms BlearsThe information is set out in the table.
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£ Force Funding1 per head of population2 2002–03
Funding1 per head of population2 2003–04
Avon and Somerset 110.15 117.18 Bedfordshire 115.55 118.92 Cambridgeshire 100.54 111.62 Cheshire 108.84 120.16 Cleveland 157.87 167.00 Cumbria 125.24 130.76 Derbyshire 105.09 112.58 Devon and Cornwall 109.35 113.03 Dorset 93.58 98.28 Durham 138.76 149.74 Dyfed-Powys 111.64 115.43 Essex 102.63 107.04 Gloucestershire 107.24 113.45 Greater Manchester 151.72 168.58 Gwent 129.39 137.75 Hampshire 107.94 118.03 Hertfordshire 101.99 107.18 Humberside 128.61 139.32 Kent 116.74 128.40 Lancashire 127.54 135.86 Leicestershire 108.92 116.95 Lincolnshire 103.72 102.31 Merseyside 180.40 194.66 Metropolitan 260.66 286.02 Norfolk 106.24 115.26 Northamptonshire 102.84 112.98 Northumbria 153.22 166.89 North Wales 119.43 124.00 North Yorkshire 98.67 103.85 Nottinghamshire 127.25 133.70 South Wales 135.83 145.63 South Yorkshire 136.86 151.49 Staffordshire 104.48 114.45 Suffolk 100.07 107.25 Surrey 86.55 93.50 Sussex 107.94 114.11
£ Force Funding1 per head of population2 2002–03
Funding1 per head of population2 2003–04
Thames Valley 104.96 110.48 Warwickshire 100.95 110.32 West Mercia 97.92 101.55 West Midlands 147.44 171.37 West Yorkshire 142.66 152.24 Wiltshire 102.79 106.38 1 Government funding includes Home Office police grant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Welsh Assembly Government Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates, Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Grant, Airwave, DNA Expansion Programme, Community Support Officers, London and South East Allowances, Free Travel for City of London and MPS, Basic Command Unit funding, Street Crime Initiative, Special Priority Payments from the PNB agreement, Counter Terrorism (PMS only), Capital grant and the premises Improvement Fund.
2 Source for resident population figures:
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The figures are as used for calculation of grant under the Police Funding Formula.
§ Mr. SimmondsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the projected funding for 2004 is for each police authority in England and Wales under the Rural Sparsity Grant. [138233]
§ Ms BlearsI shall announce details of the Rural Policing Fund allocations for 2004–05 with the provisional police funding settlement for 2004–05.
§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what police funding was allocated to the North West in each year since 1992. [134898]
§ Ms BlearsThe information is set out in the tables.
North West Region* Government Revenue Grant1 (£million)
1992–932 n/a 1993–942 n/a 1994–952 n/a 1995–96 752.65 1996–97 789.41 1997–98 805.79 1998–99 834.17 1999–2000 852.13 2000–01 884.26 2001–023 939.82 2002–03 962.04 2003–04 1,022.16 1 Government Grant includes Home Office police grant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Revenue Support Grant and non national domestic rates, Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Grant, Basic Command Unit funding, Community Support Officer funding, DNA Expansion Programme, Street Crime Initiative and Special Priority payments.
2 Before 1995–96, when most Police Authorities became independent local authorities, revenue support grant and non-national domestic rates were paid as part of respective county council grant funding.
3 The grant figures for 2001–02 and 2002–03 are not directly comparable, owing to changes from 2002–03 in the method of funding the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. Based on the new arrangements, comparable grant figure for 2001–02 would have been £917,614,378.
* The North West region is policed by Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside forces.
840WIn addition, the North West forces received the following funding in capital grant, including Airwave and the Premises Improvement Fund.
North West Region, Capital Grants (£ million)
1995–96 22.54 1996–97 17.73 1997–98 19.05 1998–99 12.92 1999–2000 13.46 2000–01 17.59 2001–02 45.46 2002–03 36.56 2003–04 34.96