Statement
My honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Security (Vernon Coaker) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House, the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2009-10 (HC 148). The report sets out my right honourable friend the Home Secretary’s determination for 2009-10 of the aggregate amount of grants that she proposes 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 police grant allocations, which include Home Office police grant and Department for Communities and Local Government/Welsh Assembly Government general grant for each police authority for 2009-10 are set out in the table.
2008-09 2009-10 Change on Formula Allocation1 Allocation1 2008-09 Formula Allocation Police Authority £m £m % English Shire Authorities Avon and Somerset 173.7 179.7 3.5% Bedfordshire 68.5 70.8 3.3% Cambridgeshire 78.7 81.0 3.0% Cheshire 117.6 120.5 2.5% Cleveland 95.3 97.7 2.5% Cumbria 65.6 67.2 2.5% Derbyshire 109.2 112.6 3.2% Devon and Cornwall 181.9 186.4 2.5% Dorset 63.7 65.3 2.5% Durham 89.2 91.4 2.5% Essex 173.0 177.9 2.8% Gloucestershire 57.8 59.3 2.5% Hampshire 202.2 207.5 2.6% Hertfordshire 117.7 121.1 3.0% Humberside 125.1 128.4 2.6% Kent 187.2 192.1 2.7% Lancashire 198.8 204.1 2.7% Leicestershire 114.7 118.0 2.9% Lincolnshire 62.3 64.3 3.1% Norfolk 85.4 87.6 2.5% North Yorkshire 74.8 76.7 2.5% Northamptonshire 73.5 75.5 2.6% Nottinghamshire 136.9 141.4 3.3% Staffordshire 117.4 120.6 2.7% Suffolk 69.2 71.0 2.5% Surrey 99.3 101.8 2.5% Sussex 165.7 169.8 2.5% Thames Valley 231.9 238.2 2.7% Warwickshire 52.8 54.1 2.6% West Mercia 118.9 121.8 2.5% Wiltshire 63.6 65.2 2.5% Shires Total 3,571.3 3,669.0 2.7% English Metropolitan Authorities Greater Manchester 445.6 458.9 3.0% Merseyside 260.6 267.4 2.6% Northumbria 243.8 249.9 2.5% South Yorkshire 199.1 204.1 2.5% West Midlands 468.0 486.1 3.9% West Yorkshire 328.2 339.2 3.4% Mets Total 1,945.4 2,005.7 3.1% London Authorities GLA - Police 1,930.0 1,978.3 2.5% City of London 2 20.2 21.0 N/A English Total 7,466.9 7,674.0 2.8% Welsh Authorities Dyfed-Powys 3 53.1 54.4 2.5% Gwent 3 80.6% 82.6% 2.5% North Wales 3 78.2 80.1 2.5% South Wales 3 176.7 181.5 2.7% Welsh total 388.6 398.6 Total 7855.5 8072.6
Notes
1. Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated under the Local Government Finance Report (England) and Local Government Finance (No.2—Provisional Settlement Police Authorities) Report (Wales). Table includes the effects of floors and scaling.
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.