Police: Finance

Mr. Sanders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what Government funding has been made available to police services to help them meet obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004; and if she will make a statement. (177447)

I have been asked to reply.

Government funding for local authorities, including police authorities to fulfil their duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 was taken into account in the spending plans for formula grant (Revenue Support Grant, Police Grant, and National Non Domestic Rates) announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007, copies of which are available in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the total budget of each police authority in England and Wales was accounted for by the police authority precept in each financial year since 1997. (178560)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

*Proportion of net budget requirement*¹ *met by precept on council tax 1997-98 to 2007-08*
Percentage
Force	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Avon and Somerset	16.1	16.5	17.6	19.0	19.7	22.2	27.2	29.0	29.2	31.4	32.3
Bedfordshire	16.1	16.7	17.9	18.7	18.8	20.7	23.1	25.2	25.3	26.8	27.1
Cambridgeshire	17.1	15.9	16.4	18.8	19.6	25.4	28.3	30.7	30.7	33.2	34.0
Cheshire	16.9	17.4	17.4	18.4	18.6	20.7	23 2	24.6	24.9	26.2	27 0
Cleveland	11.4	9.6	11.8	12.0	12.3	16.2	18.8	20.5	20.8	21.9	22.1
Cumbria	15.4	18.7	19.5	20.3	21.1	22 9	27.4	30.1	30.1	31.3	31.8
Devon and Cornwall	16.7	15.7	16.4	17.6	17.9	20.8	26.5	28.2	28.8	30.1	30.6
Dorset	23.7	25.7	26.7	28.1	29.5	32.0	35.4	37.3	37.9	41.6	42.1
Durham	12.1	10.8	10.7	10.9	11.2	12.7	14.8	16.3	16.5	17.9	22 4
Essex	18.6	20.9	21.3	21.9	21.8	23.6	26.6	27.4	27.9	29.8	30.2
Gloucestershire	16.7	18.3	21.0	23.0	23.3	25.9	34.1	35.9	36.1	40.1	40.7
Hampshire	17.6	16,6	17.1	17.0	17.3	21 2	25.4	27.1	27.5	29.4	29.8
Hertfordshire	18.9	21.1	21.7	23.2	23.3	25.6	28.9	31.2	31.6	32 5	33.0
Humberside	12.7	12.4	12.5	13.3	17.7	19.3	21.6	23.8	24.1	25.3	25.6
Kent	17.0	15.4	16.2	16.5	16.8	20.0	24.0	25.6	26.1	28.7	29.1
Lancashire	13.6	13.3	13.9	14.5	15.2	16.4	18.2	20.0	20.6	21.8	23 2
Leicestershire	14.9	16.9	17.0	17.6	18.8	22.7	23.8	26.0	26.1	27 3	27.8
Lincolnshire	20.9	23.6	23.4	24.1	24.5	25.9	27.5	28.6	29.2	32.3	32.9
Norfolk	16.7	17.3	19.6	21.1	23.0	26.3	29.7	32.1	32.4	35.3	36.1
Northamptonshire	21.0	20.3	21.4	21.8	22.2	27.0	30.7	33.3	33.1	34.1	34.7
North Yorkshire	18.1	17.3	17.9	19.1	20.0	26.4	38.1	40.1	40.1	42.4	42.4
Nottinghamshire	12.6	13.3	14.4	14.9	15.4	18.3	21.7	23 0	23.3	25.0	25.3
Staffordshire	15.7	20.1	21.1	21.7	23.4	24.8	28.9	30.3	30.7	32.5	33.0
Suffolk	17.8	17.7	18.1	19.1	19.9	23.5	28.6	30.3	30.6	32.8	33.5
Surrey	17.0	25.3	27.5	30.8	31.8	35.3	42.7	44.2	44.6	45.6	46.1
Sussex	18.7	18.0	18.2	18.5	18.8	21.7	27.4	28.6	29.0	31.2	31.9
Thames Valley	19.4	18.2	19.4	20.1	20.5	22.8	29.5	31.7	32.0	33.7	34.2
Warwickshire	18.0	20.9	22.9	23.9	25.1	28.9	31.4	32.6	33.0	35.3	35.7
West Mercia	18.5	19.1	20.1	23.7	24.0	29.8	32.1	34.9	35.1	36.4	36.9
Wiltshire	18.6	20.6	21.8	23.4	24.7	26.7	30.0	31.5	32.0	34.5	35.0
Average shires	16.8	17.4	18.3	19.4	20.1	23.0	27.1	28.9	29.3	31.1	31.7

Greater Manchester	11.4	11.5	11.8	12.0	11.9	12.6	15.5	16.1	16.4	17.0	17.3
Merseyside	11.6	12.1	12.7	13.1	13.3	14.6	14.9	15.7	15.9	17.4	17.6
Northumbria	11.0	9.6	9.6	9.7	10.0	10.5	11.0	11.3	11.3	11.7	11.8
South Yorkshire	11.8	11.7	11.6	11.8	12.1	14.0	16.6	17.5	17.7	18.3	18.7
West Midlands	11.2	10.0	10.1	10.5	10.5	11.4	12.4	13.3	13.2	13.6	13.7
West Yorkshire	11.9	11.4	11.6	12.0	12.1	14.8	16.2	17.8	18.0	19.3	19.6
Average Mets	11.4	11.0	11.2	11.5	11.6	12.9	14.4	15.3	15.4	16.2	16.4

Average England (excl. London)	15.1	15.3	16.0	16:8	17.4	19.8	23.2	24.8	25.0	26.5	27.0

Metropolitan	10.6	12.5	13.1	13.6	16.4	17.7	20.1	22.2	22.5	25.0	25.6

Average England (incl. London)	13.9	14.6	15.2	16.0	17.1	19.3	22.4	24.1	24.4	26.1	26.7

Dyfed-Powys	16.5	19.7	22.7	25.3	25.5	26.8	31.5	33.9	34.9	37.4	37.4
Gwent	13.4	14.5	15.1	17.9	19.1	20.9	24.4	26.9	27.9	28.4	28.4
North Wales	15.8	18.4	19.8	22.4	22.4	25.3	29.9	32.9	35.2	37.9	37.9
South Wales	12.5	13.9	15.4	18.2	18.4	18.8	21.3	22.3	23.3	25.4	25.4
Average Wales	14.0	15.8	17.3	20.1	20.5	21.8	25.4	27.4	28.6	30.6	31.2

Average England and Wales	13.9	14.6	15.3	16.2	17.3	19.4	22.6	24.3	24.6	26.4	26.9
¹ Net Budget Requirement figures used are taken from the BR3 (Budget Requirement 3) forms completed by all police authorities in England and Wales. Source: English police authorities—DCLG Welsh police authorities—WAG.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much central Government funding each police authority in England and Wales received in each financial year since 1997. (178563)

The information requested is shown in the following table.

*£ million*
	Government grant^{1, 2}
Police authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Avon and Somerset	134.80	139.75	142.56	146.96	152.58	158.87
Bedfordshire	50.14	51.90	51.97	54.24	59.89	61.51
Cambridgeshire	57.23	60.66	62.87	66.89	71.27	76.80
Cheshire	85.08	88.15	91.65	94.16	100.79	103.02
Cleveland	67.59	72.66	73.65	76.30	80.96	84.06
Cumbria	50.94	51.11	51.84	53.66	55.61	60.11
Derbyshire	81.06	83.35	87.29	94.24	101.56	106.46
Devon and Cornwall	132.97	141.09	146.70	152.88	163.44	167.49
Dorset	54.09	54.88	56.58	58.82	62.45	65.46
Durham	65.06	69.68	72.46	74.77	77.69	81.78
Dyfed-Powys	24.67	25.21	25.92	26.77	28.00	28.17
Essex	129.70	131.53	132.75	142.51	152.99	157.94
Gloucestershire	50.59	51.78	52.12	52.88	55.55	58.78
Greater Manchester	315.27	328.12	337.39	351.70	374.55	384.68
Gwent	31.82	33.27	34.85	35.83	37.23	37.64
Hampshire	150.38	158.77	162.66	169.64	178.39	185.16
Hertfordshire	76.02	77.23	82.42	92.89	100.61	102.27
Humberside	93.43	97.83	99.71	103.06	106.20	110.26
Kent	141.72	151.44	154.31	162.74	178.10	179.96
Lancashire	146.86	153.65	155.94	163.35	173.85	174.78
Leicestershire	83.88	85.27	87.84	90.60	94.60	101.21
Lincolnshire	52.23	51.13	53.30	56.43	60.34	60.97
Merseyside	207.64	213.25	215.31	220.65	235.53	241.29
Metropolitan⁵	1,610.26	1,633.26	1,658.78	1,601.10	1,731.70	1 ,838.70
Norfolk	65.65	68.10	69.95	74.20	81.58	86.60
North Wales	34.96	36.27	37.95	39.16	41.36	41.11
North Yorkshire	59.23	62.62	63.89	66.55	72.69	71.68
Northamptonshire	50.77	53.28	55.14	57.14	59.46	62.21
Northumbria	173.67	185.28	192.25	197.06	209.79	211.02
Nottinghamshire	104.73	108.06	110.75	113.91	123.97	129.84
South Wales	76.37	79.54	81.98	84.27	88.02	89.25
South Yorkshire	141.47	147.75	152.90	159.24	167.09	168.77
Staffordshire	96.15	95.09	96.27	100.13	105.23	106.36
Suffolk	52.57	55.14	57.29	59.09	62.24	62.02
Surrey	75.60	67.61	67.61	83.09	83.35	87.48
Sussex	127.99	134.66	137.03	142.03	149.10	153.68
Thames Valley	171.15	181.27	184.64	193.02	210.13	219.41
Warwickshire	42.18	42.54	43.16	44.98	46.90	48.67
West Mercia	87.74	90.86	92.92	98.36	108.63	109.21
West Midlands	317.34	335.10	342.16	357.58	379.35	388.14
West Yorkshire	238.20	249.54	255.01	268.61	287.07	288.26
Wiltshire	52.08	52.87	53.84	57.20	60.89	60.78
England and Wales Total	5,861.30	6,050.55	6,185.59	4,737.60	5,038.79	5,173.15

*Government grant*^{1, 2}
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³	2006-07⁴	2007-08⁴
Avon and Somerset	173.99	175.19	183.81	185.92	184.21
Bedfordshire	66.83	69.22	73.11	74.15	76.21
Cambridgeshire	77.96	79.66	85.26	82.33	85.58
Cheshire	112.59	119.77	124.28	130.88	136.13
Cleveland	90.97	94.79	99.54	101.32	105.29
Cumbria	63.08	65.27	68.71	72.43	72.29
Derbyshire	111.23	114.88	119.38	117.32	119.81
Devon and Cornwall	174.26	180.29	189.16	190.95	199.38
Dorset	71.17	75.46	73.19	81.17	82.66
Durham	86.93	90.27	95.28	94.36	97.68
Dyfed-Powys	30.12	32.23	33.61	32.69	34.17
Essex	169.34	173.67	181.81	180.43	187.91
Gloucestershire	61.48	63.66	68.00	67.93	71.35
Greater Manchester	417.66	433.15	462.73	479.73	484.16
Gwent	40.90	43.29	44.44	44.27	45.70
Hampshire	197.87	208.08	239.16	222.35	221.75
Hertfordshire	108.85	114.58	117.84	121.12	127.33
Humberside	117.34	124.65	132.49	135.00	134.90
Kent	188.38	198.30	203.93	193.45	219.23
Lancashire	188.91	196.55	205.41	207.98	215.90
Leicestershire	107.59	111.45	118.17	124.81	126.03
Lincolnshire	64.98	68.22	71.17	66.54	72.47
Merseyside	267.38	269.90	279.85	276.08	287.30
Metropolitan⁵	1,923.90	1,983.50	1,928.50	2,019.00	2,115.40
Norfolk	90.79	94.37	99.27	100.08	102.25
North Wales	44.71	47.08	49.47	48.07	50.28
North Yorkshire	78.89	80.61	83.73	86.24	79.39
Northamptonshire	69.79	70.71	72.37	75.49	78.53
Northumbria	226.21	233.28	250.55	249.17	260.01
Nottinghamshire	136.54	142.04	148.94	143.48	145.55
South Wales	93.45	103.17	107.45	91.93	94.82
South Yorkshire	184.86	191.87	202.82	205.49	211.15
Staffordshire	112.87	117.62	122.43	122.05	126.77
Suffolk	69.57	71.81	74.76	73.73	75.57
Surrey	93.59	96.78	100.80	104.76	110.12
Sussex	168.05	180.99	180.95	156.10	189.14
Thames Valley	233.34	237.32	249.35	260.52	261.98
Warwickshire	51.91	53.90	56.16	54.57	56.91
West Mercia	114.12	117.77	122.50	126.05	131.49
West Midlands	415.20	433.31	466.12	471.41	487.88
West Yorkshire	310.30	329.12	347.12	345.62	348.95
Wiltshire	64.68	65.85	70.26	68.77	73.03
England and Wales total	5,548.65	5,770.08	6,075.37	6,066.75	6,271.23
¹Revenue 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. ²Welsh Government grant includes Home Office police grant, floor funding and additional support provided to ensure Welsh police authorities receive at least a minimum increase in grant in line with English authorities. ³In 2005-06 figures were adjusted for comparison purposes following the transfer of pensions and security funding from general grant in 2006-07. ⁴2006-07 Government grant figures are provisional outturn figures. 2007-08 figures are budget figures. ⁵ The data for Metropolitan Police Authority from 2000-01 onwards is not available from DCLG as they are collected as consolidated data from GLA. Data used is compiled from Home Office data for allocated grants. Source: DCLG—from English police authorities/WAG—from Welsh police authorities.

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008