Information is set out in the following table:
£ million Police authority 1997-98 2008-09 Avon and Somerset 25.56 85.26 Bedfordshire 9.50 27.49 Cambridgeshire 11.71 41.99 Cheshire 17.12 50.34 Cleveland 8.60 29.27 Cumbria 9.23 31.66 Derbyshire 15.09 48.05 Devon and Cornwall 26.30 85.66 Dorset 16.60 47.94 Durham 8.88 26.70 Essex 29.28 77.63 Gloucestershire 10.05 41.14 Greater Manchester 40.17 98.76 Hampshire 31.76 91.65 Hertfordshire 17.59 60.23 Humberside 13.44 44.33 Kent 28.70 79.68 Lancashire 22.86 63.39 Leicestershire 14.50 49.93 Lincolnshire1 13.40 54.09 Merseyside 27.03 56.68 Metropolitan 181.83 664.97 Norfolk 13.03 52.05 North Yorkshire 13.42 57.12 Northamptonshire 21.25 40.86 Northumbria 12.99 33.77 Nottinghamshire 14.92 47.63 South Yorkshire 18.87 47.04 Staffordshire 17.71 58.81 Suffolk 11.30 37.50 Surrey 15.04 92.05 Sussex 29.06 79.87 Thames Valley 40.62 123.93 Warwickshire 9.17 32.63 West Mercia 19.66 71.71 West Midlands 39.56 74.88 West Yorkshire 31.84 82.30 Wiltshire 11.78 35.59 England total 899.38 2.824.59 Dyfed-Powys 8.24 33.86 Gwent 8.67 33.70 North Wales 11.24 51.25 South Wales 19.49 63.60 Wales total 47.64 182.41 England and Wales total 947.02 3,007.00 1 Lincolnshire police authority will be required to set a revised budget requirement and council tax following approval by the House of Commons on 9 July of an order to cap the authority in 2008-09. Source: DCLG—from English Police Authorities/WAG—from Welsh Police Authorities.