The information requested is set out in the following table.
Budget requirement is set before the start of the year.
The Government do not distribute grant to police authorities purely on the basis of population. The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics to reflect the relative needs of each police authority. Police grant allocations by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Welsh Assembly Government also take into account the relative tax base of each police authority. Grant allocations are stabilised by damping to limit year-on-year variations.
Police authority Budget requirement (£ million) Resident population (million) Avon and Somerset 259.47 1.58 Bedfordshire 96.06 0.60 Cambridgeshire 120.65 0.77 Cheshire 168.06 1.01 Cleveland 124.62 0.56 Cumbria 97.40 0.50 Derbyshire 157.22 1.00 Devon and Cornwall 268.08 1.68 Dorset 111.79 0.71 Durham 116.12 0.60 Essex 251.08 1.69 Gloucestershire 99.14 0.58 Hampshire 294.19 1.84 Hertfordshire 178.22 1.07 Humberside 169.70 0.92 Kent 266.88 1.66 Lancashire 262.07 1.47 Leicestershire 164.70 0.96 Lincolnshire 100.64 0.71 Norfolk 138.29 0.85 Northamptonshire 114.80 0.68 North Yorkshire 132.21 0.80 Nottinghamshire 184.69 1.06 Staffordshire 176.13 1.07 Suffolk 106.86 0.71 Surrey 191.50 1.09 Sussex 245.08 1.55 Thames Valley 356.10 2.17 Warwickshire 85.41 0.53 West Mercia 190.68 1.19 Wiltshire 99.28 0.65 Greater Manchester 544.93 2.57 Merseyside 317.10 1.35 Northumbria 277.82 1.39 South Yorkshire 246.61 1.29 West Midlands 543.44 2.60 West Yorkshire 410.97 2.17 Metropolitan 2,595.00 7.59 City of London 64.12 0.01 Dyfed-Powys 86.96 0.51 Gwent 114.30 0.57 North Wales 129.42 0.68 South Wales 240.30 1.23 England and Wales total 10,833.99 54.21 Sources: Budget Requirement—BR Forms. DCLG—English police authorities. WAG—Welsh police authorities. Population—ONS The projected populations for 2008 in the table were used in the 2008-09 police grant settlement.