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Police

Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on funding of non-territorial police forces. [107145]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Home Office has lead responsibility for the police forces covered by the Police Acts 1996 and 1997. Lead responsibility for other police forces resides with the relevant Government Department. However, wherever there are issues, including funding issues, that impact either on the relationship between such non-territorial police forces and the regular police forces in England and Wales, or on policing generally, the Home Office will discuss these issues with the relevant lead Department to endeavour to deliver the best joined-up policing on the ground.

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Mr. Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) overspend and (b) underspend was for each police authority in England and Wales in each year since 1996–97. [91102]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth [holding answer 16 January 2003]: The table compares initial estimates and actual net expenditure, before movements in reserves, for each police authority from 1996–97 to 2000–01, the most recent year for which actual expenditure has been published.

Police authorities meet net expenditure from general grants, precepts and reserves. In the light of events during the year, net expenditure will often differ from initial estimates.

Police authorities estimated and actual net expenditure 1996–97 to 1998–99£ million

	Estimates 1996–97	Actuals 1996–97	Difference	Estimates 1997–98	Actuals 1997–98	Dfference	Estimates 1998–99	Actuals 1998–99	Difference
Avon and Somerset	154.62	152.09	-2.53	160.66	152.67	-7.99	167.42	162.73	-4.69
Bedfordshire	57.54	56.63	-0.91	59.79	58.57	-1.22	62.32	61.78	-0.54
Cambridgeshire	66.23	65.02	-1.21	69.29	68.68	-0.61	71.23	73.43	2.20
Cheshire	97.13	94,18	-2.95	101.79	104.00	2.21	106.52	107.09	0.57
City of London	59.69	57.32	-2.37	61.69	57.89	-3.80	60.86	60.35	-0.51
Cleveland	76.69	73.12	-3>57	78.89	75.43	-3.46	82.28	81.30	-0.98
Cumbria	58.22	56.86	-1.36	59.99	61.71	1.72	63.00	62.53	-0.47
Derbyshire	92.04	90.42	-1.62	96.21	95.64	-0.57	100.89	100.06	-0.83
Devon and Cornwall	153.50	150,39	-3.11	158.01	155.44	-2.57	167.12	166.33	-0.79
Dorset	68.06	67.83	-0.23	70.04	69.73	-0.31	73.50	73.12	-0.38
Durham	70.70	68.04	-2.66	73.70	75.17	1.47	78.10	74.67	-3.43
Dyfed-Powys	48.81	47.87	-0.94	50.48	50.95	0.47	52.61	50.04	-2.57
Essex	154.98	151.41	-3.57	161.02	157.49	-3.53	168.89	156.82	-12.07
Gloucestershire	58.62	58.42	-0.20	60.80	58.63	-2.17	63.78	62.86	-0.92
Greater Manchester	343.71	341.17	-2.54	355.13	353.32	-1.81	371.50	354.17	-17.33
Gwent	61.85	57.74	-4.11	65.16	64.60	-0.56	67.92	67.66	-0.26
Hampshire	175.58	172.85	-2.73	182.51	180.80	-1.71	190.92	186.66	-4.26
Hertfordshire	90.43	88.86	-1.57	93.95	93.01	-0.94	97.86	95.07	-2.79
Humberside	102.80	99.72	-3.08	107.80	106.22	-1.58	111.59	112.57	0.98
Kent	164.22	161.63	-2.59	170.63	174.21	3.58	178.92	175.58	-3.34
Lancashire	164.64	161.87	-2.77	171.34	169.28	-2.06	178.05	177.31	-0.74
Leicestershire	94.72	92.85	-1.87	97.45	98.79	1.34	102.71	102.80	0.09
Lincolnshire	63.32	61.51	-1.81	65.78	66.18	0.40	68.32	66.66	-1.66
Merseyside	225.71	221.17	-4.54	235.03	224.33	-10.70	245.28	240.27	-5.01
Metropolitan Police	1,685.65	1,683.18	-2.47	1,706.60	1,676.62	-29.98	1,778.00	1,716.43	-61.57
Norfolk	76.16	75.55	-0.61	80.77	80.22	-0.55	82.34	80.54	-1.80
North Wales	69.34	68.27	-1.07	72.04	70.92	-1.12	75.08	72.48	-2.60
Northamptonshire	61.78	59.25	-2.53	64.77	64.61	-0.16	67.13	67.06	-0.07
North Yorkshire	69.98	67.04	-2.94	73.46	71.84	-1.62	75.64	75.34	-0.30
Northumbria	188.22	186.41	-1.81	195.29	195.09	-0.20	205.38	205.27	-0.11
Nottinghamshire	114.83	113.59	-1.24	119.*4	120.56	0.88	124.83	127.02	2.19
South Wales	151.52	147.46	-4.06	156.80	159.41	2.61	163.43	160.94	-2.49
South Yorkshire	156.90	150.95	-5.95	162.95	166.03	3.08	168.21	167.16	-1.05
Staffordshire	110.33	107.83	-2.50	115.25	110.26	-4.99	122.54	116.23	-6.31
Suffolk	62.44	60.97	-1.47	64.77	63.68	-1.09	65.79	66.10	0.31
Surrey	87.36	85.35	-2.01	90.74	90.98	0.24	90.74	91.43	0.69
Sussex	149.95	150.63	0.68	156.39	157.63	1.24	162.66	161,85	-0.81
Thames Valley	204.39	201.40	-2.99	212.16	210,33	-1.83	221.14	209.68	-11.46
Warwickshire	49.41	47.69	-1.72	51.45	51.00	-0.45	53.62	52.02	-1.60
West Mercia	103.59	102.08	-1.51	107.70	107.79	0.09	112.88	113.76	0.88
West Midlands	345.57	337.99	-7.58	357.17	360.13	2.96	372.30	368.61	-3.69
West Yorkshire	262.19	265.23	3.04	273.21	281.75	8.54	280.74	277.99	-2.75
Wiltshire	61.85	59.99	-1.86	65.25	58.54	-6.71	66.67	68.81	2.14
Total	6,715.28	6,619.83	-95.45	6,933.59	6,870.13	-63.46	7,220.71	7,070.58	-150.13

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£ million

	Estimates 1999–2000	Actuals 1999–2000	Difference	Estimates 2000–01	Actuals 2000–01	Difference
Avon and Somerset	174.42	174.34	-0.08	181.21	180.52	-0.69
Bedfordshire	64.03	63.61	-0.42	66.43	64.90	-1.53
Cambridgeshire	75.36	75.05	-0.31	79.24	77.89	-1.35
Cheshire	111.09	113.28	2.19	114.58	115.24	0.66
City of London	58.72	57.85	-0.87	58.95	57,72	-1.23
Cleveland	85.40	85.26	-0.14	85.60	86.68	1.08
Cumbria	64.69	64.79	0.10	67.40	67.25	-0.15
Derbyshire	107.04	105.59	-1.45	110.82	105.56	-5.26
Devon and Cornwall	173.65	175.06	1.41	182.87	178.30	-4.57
Dorset	77.75	76.96	-0.79	81.00	79.71	-1.29
Durham	80.71	79.66	-1.05	85.78	81.18	4.60
Dyfed-Powys	56.14	56.00	-0.14	59.28	57.98	-1.30
Essex	171.59	167.97	-3.62	184.49	181.41	-3.08
Gloucestershire	65.93	65.76	-0.17	68.70	68.16	-0.54
Greater Manchester	387.26	374.80	-12.46	400.00	385.75	-14.25
Gwent	71.41	70.83	-0.58	76.14	75.34	-0.80
Hampshire	196.96	197.48	0.52	202.53	206.55	4.02
Hertfordshire	102.36	104.45	2.09	120.95	121.09	0.14
Humberside	114.31	113.94	-0.37	119.90	116.47	-3.43
Kent	186.23	186.26	0.03	193.13	195.98	2.85
Lancashire	182.68	182.00	-0.68	190.18	191.35	1.17
Leicestershire	106.28	107.26	0.98	110.15	110.80	0.65
Lincolnshire	69.97	69.38	-0.59	72.73	73.67	0.94
Merseyside	249.52	248.41	-1.11	257.11	255.59	-1.52
Metropolitan Police	1,840.25	1,838.89	-1.36	1,837.57	1,890.99	53.42
Norfolk	86.87	87.18	0.31	91.51	91.69	0.18
North Wales	80.51	78.70	-1.81	84.02	83.91	-0.11
Northamptonshire	70.43	69.15	-1.28	73.08	74.63	1.55
North Yorkshire	78.09	78.18	0.09	83.75	84.17	0.42
Northumbria	213.01	212.70	-0.31	218.39	214.24	-4.15
Nottinghamshire	130.17	129.47	-0,70	134.30	133.57	-0.73
South Wales	169.97	169.91	-0.06	179.82	180.83	1.02
South Yorkshire	173.93	176.01	2.08	181.05	178.14	-2.91
Staffordshire	127.47	127.00	-0.47	126.96	125.65	-1.31
Suffolk	70.54	70.51	-0.03	74.06	72.26	-1.80
Surrey	100.38	100.09	-0.29	120.13	123.50	3.37
Sussex	165.80	165.56	-0.24	172.51	173.54	1.03
Thames Valley	232.73	227.02	-5.71	236.95	232.57	-4.38
Warwickshire	56.16	55.16	-1.00	59.01	56.12	-2.89
West Mercia	116.49	111.45	-5.04	125.70	121.30	-4.40
West Midlands	380.97	381.48	0.51	395.10	385.98	-9.12
West Yorkshire	288.87	286.09	-2.78	304.13	297.75	-6.38
Wiltshire	69.72	69.82	0.10	71.98	70.47	-1.51
Total	7,485.86	7,450.36	-35.50	7,739.18	7,726.40	-12.78

Source:

The chartered institute of public finance and accountancy police statistics 1996–97 to 2000–01 (Actuals).

Net expenditure is service expenditure less specific income and receipts, before movements in reserves.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

HIV/AIDS

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what efforts the UK Government is making to improve the understanding by overseas governments of the challenge facing the states of Africa in tackling HIV and AIDS. [106763]

Clare Short: There are a number of ways in which the UK Government are improving understanding of the challenges faced by African countries in tackling HIV and AIDS. Working at a country level, many of our bilateral programmes are supporting National AIDS Councils to generate knowledge—helping to build capacity in developing strategies that are based on sound evidence, to prevent the spread of HIV, care for those already living with HIV/AIDS, and to mitigate

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against the impact of the disease. At a regional level, the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (IPAA), a DFID funded initiative, is also helping to build governments' understanding of the epidemic so they can scale up their country responses, and assisting in the sharing of lessons learnt across the region.

More specifically, in South Africa DFID is co-funding (with USAID and AusAid) a number of research papers into the economic impact of HIV/AIDS. We plan to undertake similar knowledge generation in Kenya and Malawi.

My Department is also supporting the UNAIDS' initiative 'AIDS In Africa—Scenarios for the Future'. This innovative project aims to map out the possible impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on Africa in the next 20 years in order to identify what needs to be done to alter the course of events.

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Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support her Department is giving to (a) governments and (b) non-governmental organisations in Africa to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS. [106761]

Clare Short: My Department recognises that HIV/AIDS is a terrible human catastrophe and is one of the most important development challenges facing Africa. Over £180 million was committed to programmes focusing on HIV/AIDS and sexual health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa last year, with intensive bi-lateral action in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Over £25 million has been committed to support the International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa (IPAA) initiative—a regional, Africa-led initiative aimed at building Governments' national responses to the AIDS crisis, with a focus on Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ghana. In addition to working with governments, DFID also supports the efforts of non-governmental and civil society organisations in their efforts at preventing the spread of HIV, caring for those already living with the disease, and working to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on people's lives. Support is given through DFID's Challenge Fund and Partnership Programme Agreements, with international NGOs, as well as directly to local NGOs and civil society organisations through our in-country programmes.

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