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Police Housing Allowances

Volume 177: debated on Monday 23 July 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish details of the new force housing allowance for each of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.

Responsibility for fixing the new housing allowance, lies with the police authority concerned. I understand that the standard housing allowances for federated ranks in those authorities which have fixed a figure are as follows:

£

Avon and Somerset1,914·81
Bedfordshire2,451·84
Cambridgeshire1,970·77
Cheshire2,381·47
Cleveland2,041·91
Cumbria1,920·24
Derbyshire3,069·72
Devon and Cornwall2,680·08
Dorset2,200·68
Durham1,766·04
Dyfed-Powys1,842·00
Essex3,447·51
Gloucestershire2,719·21
Greater Manchester2,022·49
Gwent2,543·80
Hampshire3,249·60
Hertfordshire2,880·00
Humberside2,424·00
Kent3,117·70
Leicestershire2,346·00
Merseyside1,818·11
Norfolk2,579·31
Northumbria1,513·42
North Wales2,012·28
North Yorkshire3,212·41
Nottinghamshire2,244·00
South Wales2,850·43
South Yorkshire1,998·52
Staffordshire1,935·40
Suffolk3,181·44
Surrey2,932·92
Sussex2,425·28
Thames Valley3,428·36
Warwickshire2,937·69
West Mercia2,560·00
West Midlands2,206·99
West Yorkshire2,293·46
City of London4,133·77
Metropolitan4,133·77

Death of 15–20 year olds at their own hand in prison custody 1986–90

Age

Total

15

16

17

18

19

20

19864(2)1(1)5(3)
19871(1)1(1)1(1)4(4)7(7)
19882(2)2(1)3(3)2(1)9(7)
1989

14(3)

7(4)

111(7)

1990

11(-)

13(-)

11(-)

14(-)

1 Inquests have yet to be held on the inmates who have died in 1990 and on one of the 18-year-old inmates who died in 1989.