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Police: Council Tax

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was raised from the police precept in (a) England, (b) Wales and (c) each police authority in England and Wales in 1997-98; and how much is expected to be raised in 2008-09. (218291)

Information is set out in the following table:

Council tax requirement

£ 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.