To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report in tablular form details for the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available of the total pay bill, compensatory grant received and income tax paid by each police authority in England and Wales in respect of police officers' rent allowance.
Expenditure incurred by police authorities in England and Wales on salaries for police officers in 1987–88 is shown in the table. The figures for allowances include compensatory grant payments but it is not possible to identify such payments separately.
| £ million | |||
| Salaries1 | Allowances | Total | |
| Avon and Somerset | 45,719 | 7,801 | 53,520 |
| Bedfordshire | 15,727 | 2,523 | 18,250 |
| Cambridgeshire | 17,691 | 2,536 | 20,227 |
| Cheshire | 28,239 | 4,642 | 32,881 |
| Cleveland | 22,567 | 4,332 | 26,899 |
| Cumbria | 17,797 | 2,249 | 20,046 |
| Derbyshire | 27,485 | 4,592 | 32,077 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 43,769 | 7,733 | 51,502 |
| Dorset | 18,790 | 3,163 | 21,953 |
| Durham | 20,422 | 3,022 | 23,444 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 13,924 | 1,839 | 15,763 |
| Essex | 43,246 | 8,794 | 52,040 |
| Gloucestershire | 17,265 | 3,123 | 20,388 |
| Greater Manchester | 106,342 | 15,977 | 122,319 |
| Gwent | 15,172 | 2,411 | 17,583 |
| Hampshire | 49,364 | 8,633 | 57,997 |
| Hertfordshire | 24,760 | 3,724 | 28,484 |
| Humberside | 30,630 | 5,454 | 36,084 |
| Kent | 48,454 | 8,313 | 56,767 |
| Lancashire | 49,173 | 6,637 | 55,810 |
| Leicestershire | 26,921 | 4,981 | 31,902 |
| Lincolnshire | 18,641 | 3,014 | 21,655 |
| Merseyside | 74,855 | 13,066 | 87,921 |
| Norfolk | 20,764 | 3,584 | 24,348 |
| Northamptonshire | 16,898 | 2,513 | 19,411 |
| Northumbria | 54,245 | 8,201 | 62,446 |
| North Wales | 19,825 | 2,621 | 22,446 |
| North Yorkshire | 20,550 | 2,561 | 23,111 |
| Nottinghamshire | 32,661 | 5,844 | 38,505 |
| South Wales | 46,005 | 8,603 | 54,608 |
| South Yorkshire | 44,876 | 7,512 | 52,388 |
| Staffordshire | 32,702 | 4,872 | 37,574 |
Salaries 1
| Allowances
| Total
| |
| Suffolk | 18,287 | 2,987 | 21,274 |
| Surrey | 25,961 | 3,965 | 29,926 |
| Sussex | 43,266 | 6,651 | 49,917 |
| Thames Valley | 56,679 | 10,124 | 66,803 |
| Warwickshire | 15,338 | 2,675 | 18,013 |
| West Mercia | 29,994 | 4,614 | 34,608 |
| West Midlands | 106,742 | 15,659 | 122,401 |
| West Yorkshire | 79,035 | 13,603 | 92,638 |
| Wiltshire | 17,160 | 2,952 | 20,112 |
| City of London | 14,390 | 2,457 | 16,847 |
| Metropolitan | 503,180 | 84,328 | 587,508 |
| TOTAL | 1,975,511 | 324,885 | 2,300,396 |
1 Includes National Insurance. | |||