To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were (a) the total and (b) the average overtime payments for police officers in each police force in England and Wales for each year since 1992–93. [115061
The following tables show overtime costs, where available, for each police force in years 1992–93 to 1995–96. Figures for 1996–97 are not held centrally. The information for years up to, and including, 1994–95 is taken from the police grant claim forms. The format of this changed in 1995–96, when police authorities were no longer required to submit detailed expenditure information. The figures for 1995–96 are therefore taken from returns submitted by police forces to Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary's matrix of indicators. However that return also changed in 1996–97,since when information on overtime costs has no longer been available. Nor are details of overtime costs included in the Charered Institute of public Finance and Accountancy statistics of actual police expenditure from 1994–95 onwards. The average overtime payment has been calculated bf dividing the total cost of overtime for the force by its recorded police strength as at 31 march in the year in question.
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| Total cost 1992–93£ | Average per officer£ | Total cost 1993–94£ | Average per officer£ | |
| Avon and Somerset | 6,483,805 | 2,113 | 3,411,264 | 1,125 |
| Bedfordshire | 2,465,006 | 2,110 | 2,005,596 | 1,742 |
| Cambridgeshire | 3,482,000 | 2,753 | 2,452,994 | 1,942 |
| Cheshire | 4,442,473 | 2,328 | 2,849,688 | 1,498 |
| City of London | 2,173,705 | 2,635 | 2,414,334 | 2,704 |
| Cleveland | 1,645,093 | 1,113 | 1,860,389 | 1,302 |
| Cumbria | 2,355,384 | 1,969 | 1,772,714 | 1,510 |
| Derbyshire | 3,258,958 | 1,781 | 2,606,392 | 1,432 |
| Devon and Cornwall | 6,061,765 | 2,083 | 4,308,050 | 1,478 |
| Dorset | 1,729,899 | 1,329 | 1,496,308 | 1,154 |
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Total cost 1992–93£
| Average per officer £
| Total cost 1993–94£
| Average per officer £
| |
| Durham | 1,670,907 | 1,210 | 1,850,700 | 1,338 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 2,142,357 | 2,215 | 1,385,499 | 1,436 |
| Essex | 5,628,590 | 1,917 | 5,897,104 | 2,008 |
| Gloucestershire | 1,539,963 | 1,340 | 1,986,563 | 1,714 |
| Greater Manchester | 24,271,289 | 3,438 | 15,174,820 | 2,178 |
| Gwent | 1,553,956 | 1,548 | 1,381,970 | 1,392 |
| Hampshire | 7,107,374 | 2,170 | 6,577,017 | 2,011 |
| Hertfordshire | 2,324,840 | 1,368 | 2,721,585 | 1,618 |
| Humberside | 3,280,068 | 1,614 | 3,583,821 | 1,758 |
| Kent | 5,598,524 | 1,780 | 6,013,068 | 1,912 |
| Lancashire | 6,967,479 | 2,173 | 4,521,393 | 1,426 |
| Leicestershire | 3,875,318 | 2,147 | 2,165,623 | 1,187 |
| Lincolnshire | 2,343,488 | 1,953 | 2,090,057 | 1,734 |
| Merseyside | 13,660,235 | 2,926 | 9,685,750 | 2,064 |
| Norfolk | 3,484,596 | 2,420 | 2,926,125 | 2,022 |
| Northamptonshire | 2,804,613 | 2,339 | 2,043,539 | 1,747 |
| Northumbria | 10,559,857 | 2,964 | 6,289,065 | 1,748 |
| North Wales | 2,351,525 | 1,729 | 2,037,388 | 1,507 |
| North Yorkshire | 3,001,970 | 2,155 | 2,155,751 | 1,636 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2,582,689 | 1,110 | 2,176,532 | 935 |
| South Wales | 5,553,765 | 1,749 | 4,840,639 | 1,546 |
| South Yorkshire | 7,415,640 | 2,446 | 6,150,043 | 2,034 |
| Staffordshire | 3,716,068 | 1,705 | 3,555,875 | 1,610 |
| Suffolk | 2,358,621 | 1,901 | 1,937,984 | 1,604 |
| Surrey | 3,244,020 | 1,916 | 2,761,499 | 1,655 |
| Sussex | 6,215,486 | 2,066 | 4,857,135 | 1,614 |
| Thames Valley | 9,882,241 | 2,574 | 9,822,938 | 2,514 |
| Warwickshire | 1,836,204 | 1,800 | 1,679,423 | 1,606 |
| West Mercia | 4,261,532 | 2,075 | 3,097,475 | 1,504 |
| West Midlands | 11,628,414 | 1,672 | 9,948,439 | 1,418 |
| West Yorkshire | 7,933,671 | 1,575 | 7,361,286 | 1,459 |
| Wiltshire | 2,387,129 | 1,887 | 1,653,739 | 1,308 |
| Metropolitan | 76,857,000 | 2,900 | 71,113,000 | 2,567 |
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Total cost 1994–95 £
| Average per officer £
| Total cost 1995–96 £
| Average per officer £
| |
| Avon and Somerset | 2,843,044 | 948 | 2,510,903 | 842 |
| Bedfordshire | 1,792,069 | 1,592 | Not available | |
| Cambridgeshire | 2,456,325 | 1,948 | 2,277,573 | 1,840 |
| Cheshire | 2,243,278 | 1,161 | 2,092,792 | 1,047 City of |
| City of London | 1,646,861 | 1,861 | 1,533,612 | 1,763 |
| Cleveland | 1,664,361 | 1,157 | 1,502,665 | 1,058 |
| Cumbria | 1,600,386 | 1,371 | 1,395,521 | 1,252 |
| Derbyshire | 2,249,611 | 1,252 | Not available | |
| Devon and Cornwall | 3,326,400 | 1,156 | 2,753,740 | 950 |
| Dorset | 1,728,068 | 1,342 | 1,498,850 | 1,187 |
| Durham | 1,661,918 | 1,228 | 1,584,453 | 1,131 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 1,295,359 | 1,327 | 991,485 | 1,000 |
| Essex | 6,216,366 | 2,128 | 4,521,694 | 1,568 |
| Gloucestershire | 1,792,109 | 1,541 | 1,536,837 | 1,356 |
| Greater Manchester | 21,327,408 | 3,031 | 12,320,615 | 1,776 |
| Gwent | 1,340,540 | 1,345 | 1,188,953 | 1,139 |
| Hampshire | 7,057,835 | 2,168 | 6,792,300 | 2,029 |
| Hertfordshire | 2,727,741 | 1,602 | 2,860,029 | 1,671 |
| Humberside | 3,166,817 | 1,561 | 3,195,743 | 1,566 |
| Kent | 5,815,810 | 1,866 | 4,752,818 | 1,523 |
| Lancashire | 3,315,921 | 1,032 | 4,727,719 | 1,491 |
| Leicestershire | 1,803,140 | 981 | Not available | |
| Lincolnshire | 2,352,836 | 1,962 | 1,804,428 | 1,576 |
| Merseyside | 8,772,444 | 1,883 | 9,308,852 | 2,110 |
| Norfolk | 2,408,259 | 1,726 | 2,785,562 | 1,988 |
| Northamptonshire | 2,067,450 | 1,788 | 1,940,193 | 1,683 |
| Northumbria | 6,939,486 | 1,924 | 4,900,000 | 1,336 |
| North Wales | 2,025,795 | 1,483 | 2,323,768 | 1,686 |
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Total cost 1994–95 £
| Average per officer £
| Total cost 1995–96 £
| Average per officer £
| |
| North Yorkshire | 2,042,438 | 1,571 | 2,331,828 | 1,761 |
| Nottinghamshire | 2,240,937 | 966 | 2,858,904 | 1,233 |
| South Wales | 2,052,738 | 681 | 3,121,410 | 1,031 |
| South Yorkshire | 4,370,277 | 1,438 | 5,200,856 | 1,692 |
| Staffordshire | 3,098,956 | 1,389 | 3,045,884 | 1,379 |
| Suffolk | 1,825,389 | 1,533 | 923,590 | 812 |
| Surrey | 3,449,709 | 2,058 | 2,397,070 | 1,458 |
| Sussex | 6,020,618 | 2,054 | 4,223,529 | 1,374 |
| Thames Valley | 8,395,959 | 2,179 | 5,428,446 | 1,478 |
| Warwickshire | 1,466,419 | 1,448 | 394,790 | 403 |
| West Mercia | 2,766,917 | 1,352 | 1,948,868 | 966 |
| West Midlands | 9,810,619 | 1,398 | 9,198,454 | 1,287 |
| West Yorkshire | 6,393,270 | 1,266 | 6,722,464 | 1,307 |
| Wiltshire | 1,459,612 | 1,158 | 1,168,206 | 958 |
| Metropolitan | 72,537,984 | 2,640 | 68,611,322 | 2,509 |
1992–93 to 1994–95: police grant claim forms. 1995–96: The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Estimates.