Police: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the expenditure on (a) direct staff cost, (b) operational support cost, (c) business support cost and (d) cost excluding sustaining overhead under activity-based costing analysis was on (i) reducing crime, (ii) investigating crime, (iii) promoting public safety and (iv) providing assistance in each financial year since 2004-05. (200338)

The Department’s expenditure on crime for the last three years, for which there are audited figures, is shown in the following table.

*Crime reduction and community safety group*
£000
	Outturn
	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL)
Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol related crime	428,230	347,800	381,184
Of which:
Crime Reduction	210,206	161,155	193,059
Criminal Records Bureau	-999	-18,202	-25,394
Firearms Compensation	6	—	—
Drugs	206,904	200,382	211,472
Security Industry Authority	12,113	4,465	2,047

Lead visible, responsive and accountable policing	5,515,366	5,955,449	6,028,158
Of which:
Police (inc grants)	4,987,320	5,393,649	5,335,705
Independent Police Complaints Commission	24,086	26,374	31,272
Central Police Training and Development Agency	83,283	102,799	70,559
Police Information Technology Organisation	167,814	196,113	203,569
National Criminal Intelligence Service	83,835	77,906	—
National Crime Squad	161,767	152,070	—
Serious Organised Crime Agency	7,261	6,538	387,053

Capital DEL
Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol related crime	30,971	25,036	33,879
Of which:
Crime Reduction	24,785	23,805	11,717
Drugs	2,174	800	20,262
Security Industry Authority	4,012	431	1,900

Lead visible, responsive and accountable policing	410,923	444,438	423,008
Of which:
Police (inc grants)	307,594	342,128	173,249
Independent Police Complaints Commission	3,744	540	5
Central Police Training and Development Agency	15,777	6,747	132,573
Police Information Technology Organisation	62,808	83,422	2,175
National Criminal Intelligence Service	4,905	2,439	73,320
National Crime Squad	8,977	6,845	—
Serious Organised Crime Agency	7,118	2,317	41,686

Administration budget
Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol related crime	17,881	6,340	10,168
Lead visible, responsive and accountable policing	27,834	35,857	31,671

UK Border Agency (UKBA)
Enforcement and compliance		147,211	178,208
Criminal casework		3,003	13,559

To provide the detail requested in the question could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost. Figures for UKBA 2004-05 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 483: debated on Tuesday 18 November 2008