Funding data for 1997-98 are not readily available.
The Home Office did not provide direct funding for programmes to tackle antisocial behaviour in Hemsworth or Wakefield Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) in 2008-09.
A number of specific and individual Home Office grants have now been combined into Area Based Grant (ABG), which is allocated to local authorities on a three-year basis to maximise stability and certainty. The receiving authorities have flexibility to use ABG as they see fit to deliver local, regional and national priorities in their respective areas.
Home Office-led activities also act to tackle antisocial behaviour, for example the introduction of community support officers. Funding for neighbourhood policing (NP) (including police community support officers (PCSOs) has been provided to police authorities since 2002-03. For England and Wales the total funding for 2008-09 was £324 million. Hemsworth is within the West Yorkshire police area. Funding for West Yorkshire for 2008-09 NP/PCSOs was £13.6 million. It is for police authorities to allocate resources, and for chief constables to deploy personnel (including PCSOs) within each police force area.