To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list by police authority (a) the number of officers who have retired and (b) the estimated cost of paying the pensions of retired officers in each of the last five years. [82492]
Information on the number of officers retiring is set out in the table. For information on the cost of police pensions I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Home Office, to the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) on 23 March 1999, Official Report, columns 164–72.
Numbers of police officers retiring, England and Wales, 1993–94—1997–98
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1993–94
| 1994–95
| 1995–96
| 1996–97
| 1997–98
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| Lancashire | 150 | 108 | 134 | 87 | 110 |
| Leicestershire | 71 | 73 | 72 | 52 | 59 |
| Lincolnshire | 47 | 49 | 63 | 47 | 58 |
| Merseyside | 185 | 232 | 256 | 217 | 151 |
| Metropolitan | 721 | 1,302 | 864 | 904 | 1,027 |
| Norfolk | 55 | 55 | 75 | 64 | 68 |
| Northamptonshire | 38 | 65 | 27 | 24 | 44 |
| Northumbria | 162 | 153 | 178 | 136 | 151 |
| North Wales | 55 | 50 | 50 | 60 | 40 |
| North Yorkshire | 106 | 57 | 43 | 51 | 45 |
| Nottinghamshire | 83 | 79 | 78 | 67 | 94 |
| South Wales | 87 | 98 | 154 | 119 | 140 |
| South Yorkshire | 124 | 87 | 94 | 74 | 93 |
| Staffordshire | 106 | 70 | 50 | 85 | 133 |
| Suffolk | 43 | 41 | 53 | 56 | 51 |
| Surrey | 36 | 67 | 53 | 58 | 73 |
| Sussex | 100 | 78 | 155 | 145 | 126 |
| Thames Valley | 86 | 114 | 133 | 125 | 123 |
| Warwickshire | 50 | 44 | 29 | 26 | 54 |
| West Mercia | 58 | 87 | 59 | 82 | 72 |
| West Midlands | 228 | 306 | 285 | 256 | 314 |
| West Yorkshire | 211 | 152 | 151 | 161 | 164 |
| Wiltshire | 29 | 37 | 30 | 67 | 47 |
| Provincial Total | 3,618 | 3,568 | 3,768 | 3,574 | 3,781 |
| England and Wales Total | 4,339 | 4,870 | 4,632 | 4,478 | 4,808 |