asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now specify the distribution of the reductions in the rate of growth in public expenditure announced on 17th December last between the various services for which his Department is responsible, and the consequential changes to take effect during the course of the current financial year, respectively.

The distribution of the savings is as follows:

	£ million
	Capital	Procurement
Courts	2·0	0·7
Prisons	5·0	1·0
Police	7·8	5·6
Fire	2·7	1·8
Urban Programme	0·5	0·5
Probation	Nil	0·4
Totals	18·0	10·0

In view of the effect of earlier reductions in expenditure, and the predominantly local authority nature of the services, it is impracticable to estimate the consequential effect in the course of the current financial year.