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Police: Council Tax

Volume 508: debated on Tuesday 6 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average Band D police precept on council tax bills in (a) England, (b) England and Wales and (c) each individual police authority (i) was in 1997-98 and (ii) will be in 2010-11 in (A) cash terms and (B) real terms in 2010 prices. (325322)

The information available is in the following table.

£

Precept (Band D) 1997-98

Precept (Band D) 2010-11

Police Authority

Cash

Real

Cash=real terms

Avon and Somerset

52.04

70.46

168.03

Bedfordshire

52.51

71.10

144.77

Cambridgeshire

51.03

69.10

169.56

Cheshire

51.16

69.27

144.53

Cleveland

54.87

74.29

187.84

Cumbria

58.20

78.80

193.89

Derbyshire

51.31

69.47

163.74

Devon and Cornwall

49.79

67.42

156.60

Dorset

63.59

86.10

180.00

Durham

52.20

70.68

153.41

Essex

54.09

73.24

132.12

Gloucestershire

51.17

69.28

199.69

Greater Manchester

54.10

73.25

144.33

Hampshire

51.75

70.07

146.25

Hertfordshire

51.51

69.75

147.82

Humberside

52.47

71.04

166.47

Kent

51.59

69.85

138.68

Lancashire

53.25

72.10

146.27

Leicestershire

52.26

70.76

169.63

Lincolnshire

69.03

93.47

179.28

Metropolitan

63.27

85.67

216.83

Merseyside

66.87

90.54

146.23

Norfolk

50.58

68.49

191.16

North Yorkshire

49.72

67.32

204.55

Northamptonshire

70.56

95.54

193.20

Northumbria

52.73

71.40

83.68

Nottinghamshire

49.78

67.40

160.11

South Yorkshire

53.29

72.16

132.33

Staffordshire

54.74

74.12

177.61

Suffolk

51.39

69.58

160.74

Surrey

44.64

60.44

198.54

Sussex

51.66

69.95

138.42

Thames Valley

52.79

71.48

154.30

Warwickshire

52.24

70.73

174.10

West Mercia

50.87

68.88

178.72

West Midlands

53.20

72.03

99.45

West Yorkshire

53.17

71.99

130.50

Wiltshire

55.22

74.77

157.77

Dyfed Powys

48.42

65.56

181.44

Gwent

49.10

66.48

181.38

North Wales

48.52

65.70

201.33

South Wales

49.22

66.64

153.67

England Average

54.07

73.21

161.35

England and Wales Average

53.57

72.53

163.07

Sources:

1. English Police Authorities—DCLG

2. Welsh Police Authorities—WAG

The averages calculated here are the averages of the precepts displayed above.