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Dorset Constabulary

Volume 449: debated on Monday 17 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much central funding has been given to the Dorset constabulary since 1997. (84739)

The information is set out in the following table.

Government funding for Dorset 1997-98 to 2006-07

£ million

General grant1

Capital provision, specific grants and special formula grant

Total

1997-98

54.1

1.4

55.4

1998-99

54.9

3.7

58.6

1999-2000

56.6

4.4

61.0

2000-01

58.4

2.0

60.4

2001-02

60.0

5.5

65.4

2001-022

58.3

5.5

63.8

2002-03

59.7

5.7

65.4

2003-04

61.6

6.8

68.3

2004-05

63.6

6.6

70.1

2005-06

66.0

7.2

73.2

2005-063

58.2

15.0

73.2

2006-074

60.0

16.4

76.4

1 Total government grants includes general grant (Home Office police grant, DCLG/Welsh Assembly Government Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates). It also includes specific grants: Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Fund, Basic Command Unit funding, Community Support Officers funding, Neighbourhood Policing Fund, Airwave, DNA Expansion Programme, Special Priority Payments and capital grants. Pensions deficit grant and Dedicated Security Posts funding is included for 2006-07. Special formula grant in 2006-07 comprises the former specific grants Rural Policing Fund, Special Priority payments, DNA grant and South East/London allowances. 2 Figures 2001-02 not directly comparable with 2002-03 due to transfer of funding for NCS/NCIS from police authorities to Home Office. Adjusted figures are comparable with subsequent years. 3 Figures for 2006-07 are not directly comparable with 2005-06 owing to the transfer from general to specific grant of pensions’ and security grant. The adjustments to 2005-06 render them comparable with those for 2006-07. 4 General grant allocations are net of Amending Report adjustments for 2004-05 and 2005-06 that took account of ONS population data changes and some pensions’ data changes.