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Police: Finance

Volume 487: debated on Thursday 29 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) expenditure on policing and (b) her Department's resource budget allocation for police spending was in each year since 1997-98. (247113)

Information on the provision for policing by central Government is set out in the following table.

Expenditure on policing from 1997-98 to 2008-09

£ million

1997-98

1998-99

1999-00

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Total police authority net revenue expenditure1

6,873

7,071

7,446

7,697

8,275

8,592

9,385

9,916

10,164

10,085

10,622

n/a

Home Office police resource grants2

3,473

3,649

3,698

3,895

4,354

4,538

4,960

5,061

5,268

5,533

5,764

6,085

Department of Communities and Local Government/Welsh Assembly Government revenue support grant/national non-domestic rates

2,544

2,539

2,634

2,677

2,666

2,815

2,825

2,966

3,120

3,304

3,474

3,570

1 Source: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

2 Police General Formula Grant and specific resource grants

Note:

Year on year figures are not directly comparable due to changes over time in grant policy and recommended accounting practice.