Sussex Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the percentage change in Government funding for Sussex police has been over the last 10 years. (141827)

The information requested is set out in the following table.

*Sussex police—funding*
	1997-98	2007-08
General Government grants (£)	127,990,358	161,716,484
Percentage change in general Government grants	—	26.4
Specific grants and capital provision (£)	4,258,000	36,110,087
Total Government grants (£)	132,248,358	197,826,571
Percentage change in total Government grants	—	49.6

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007