My honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety for the Home Department (Tony McNulty) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I have today placed in the Library a copy of the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2007-08 (HC 207). The report sets out my determination for 2007-08 of the aggregate amount of grants that I propose to pay under Section 46(2) of the Police Act 1996, and the amount to be paid to the Greater London Authority for the Metropolitan Police Authority.
General grant allocations, which include Home Office police grant and revenue support grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government and Welsh Assembly Government, for each police authority for 2007-08 are set out in the table.
Police Authority 2006-07 Formula Allocation 1 £m 2006-07 Formula Allocation 1 £m Change on 2006-07 Formula Allocation Per cent English Shire forces Avon & Somerset 161.8 167.9 3.8 per cent Bedfordshire 64.0 66.4 3.7 per cent Cambridgeshire 73.8 76.5 3.7 per cent Cheshire 110.8 114.8 3.6 per cent Cleveland 89.8 93.0 3.6 per cent Cumbria 61.8 64.0 3.6 per cent Derbyshire 102.0 105.8 3.7 per cent Devon & Cornwall 171.4 177.5 3.6 per cent Dorset 60.0 62.2 3.6 per cent Durham 84.0 87.0 3.6 per cent Essex 162.6 168.5 3.6 per cent Gloucestershire 54.5 56.5 3.6 per cent Hampshire 190.4 197.3 3.6 per cent Hertfordshire 110.4 114.4 3.7 per cent Humberside 117.8 122.0 3.6 per cent Kent 176.2 182.6 3.6 per cent Lancashire 187.0 193.7 3.6 per cent Leicestershire 107.5 111.5 3.7 per cent Lincolnshire 58.3 60.5 3.7 per cent Norfolk 80.5 83.4 3.6 per cent North Yorkshire 70.5 73.0 3.6 per cent Northamptonshire 69.2 71.7 3.6 per cent Nottinghamshire 127.8 132.5 3.7 per cent Staffordshire 110.3 114.3 3.6 per cent Suffolk 65.2 67.6 3.6 per cent Surrey 93.6 97.0 3.6 per cent Sussex 156.1 161.7 3.6 per cent Thames Valley 217.9 225.9 3.7 per cent Warwickshire 49.7 51.5 3.7 per cent West Mercia 112.0 116.0 3.6 per cent Wiltshire 59.9 62.0 3.6 per cent Shires Total 3356.6 3478.6 3.6 per cent English Metropolitan forces Greater Manchester 417.4 432.7 3.7 per cent Merseyside 245.0 253.8 3.6 per cent Northumbria 229.7 238.0 3.6 per cent South Yorkshire 187.5 194.3 3.6 per cent West Midlands 433.6 450.2 3.8 per cent West Yorkshire 306.2 317.6 3.7 per cent Mets Total 1819.4 1886.5 3.7 per cent London forces GLA – Police 1818.3 1883.7 3.6 per cent City of London 21.8 22.8 N/A London Total 1840.1 1906.5 N/A English Total 7016.1 7271.6 3.6 per cent Welsh forces Dyfed-Powys 50.0 51.8 3.6 per cent Gwent 75.9 78.7 3.6 per cent North Wales 73.7 76.3 3.6 per cent South Wales 166.1 172.2 3.6 per cent Welsh total 365.7 379.0 3.6 per cent TOTAL 7381.8 7650.6 3.6 per cent Notes 1. Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated under the Local Government Finance Report (England) and Local Government Finance (Police) Report (Wales). This includes the Metropolitan Police special payment, and the effects of floors. 2. Figures for the City of London relate to Home Office Grant only as calculated in the Police Grant Report (England and Wales). Revenue Support Grant is allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions. The City is grouped with education authorities for the purposes of floors. 3. Welsh figures include Home Office floor funding (£12.9 million). Grant provision under the principal formula for police authorities in Wales is varied to ensure that South Wales Police Authority will receive in principal formula and local authority general grants the same increase as that applicable to police authorities in England. A sum equal to the reduction for South Wales is allocated to Dyfed Powys, Gwent and North Wales Police Authorities.