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Essex Police Authority: Finance

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

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Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the total police grant funding was for Essex police authority in each year since 1990; (174086)

(2) how much funding was allocated per head of population to Essex police authority in each year since 1990.

Mr. McNulty

Essex police authority in its present format came into existence on 1 April 1995. Revenue grants for Essex police authority since 1995-96 are set out in the following table.

The Government do not distribute grant to police authorities purely on the basis of population. The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics to reflect the relative needs of each authority. Grant allocations also take into account the relative tax base of each authority. Grant allocations are stabilised by damping to limit year-on-year variations.

Essex police authority government revenue grant allocations 1995-96 to 2007-08

Government grant1(£million)

Resident population (million)

1995-96

123.29

1.56

1996-97

127.31

1.57

1997-98

129.70

1.58

1998-99

131.53

1.59

1999-2000

132.75

1.60

2000-01

142.51

1.61

2001-02

152.99

1.62

2002-03

157.94

1.62

2003-04

169.34

1.63

2004-05

173.67

1.64

2005-062

181.81

1.65

2006-073,4

180.43

1.65

2007-08

187.91

1.66

1 Revenue funding includes all grants inside Aggregate External Finance (AEF) (i.e. revenue grants paid for councils' core services), and includes formula grant and all specific grants. 2 2005-06 figures have been adjusted for purposes of comparison with future years following the transfer of pensions and security funding from general grant in 2006-07. 3 2006-07 Government grant figures are provisional outurn figures. 2007-08 figures are budget figures. 4 In keeping with an initiative by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the data for 2006-07 have been collected on a Financial Reporting Standard 17 (FRS17) basis. On this basis, decisions relating to pensions are accounted for in the year they are taken, rather than the year to which they apply. As a result some expenditure on pensions may be reflected in the data and consequently comparisons between 2006-07 and data on a non-FRS17 basis may not be valid. Source: Population: Office of National Statistics, mid year population estimates and projections. Grants: DCLG.