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Performance Monitoring
Mr. Flight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost was of (a) setting, (b) monitoring and (c) measuring the performance targets for his Department in 2002–03; and how many and what grades of civil servants monitor these targets. [137956]
Fiona Mactaggart: Performance targets for the Home Office were agreed as part of the Spending Review 2002. The monitoring and measurement of Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets forms part of departmental performance management. Performance management is an integral part of the day to day running of the Department, and as such it is not possible to separate the specific costs out. The monitoring of progress towards, and performance against, the Department's PSA targets is undertaken by a wide variety of staff at all levels of the organisation.
Mr. Flight: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the performance targets that (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies are required to meet; and if he will specify for each target (i) who sets it and (ii) who monitors achievement against it. [137971]
Fiona Mactaggart: Key performance targets for the Home Office were agreed as part of the Spending Review 2002 and the latest set were published in Spending Review 2002: Public Service Agreements 2003–2006 (CM 5571). They have also been published in various
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Home Office publications, including "Targets Delivery Report" (CM5754), and on the Department's website. The Department monitors progress towards the targets along with Her Majesty's Treasury and the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and progress is reported regularly.
Targets relating specifically to Home Office agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are set by the Secretary of State for the Home Office and are monitored by the Department, including through meetings between each organisation and Ministers or officials. A list of Home Office-sponsored agencies and executive NDPBs is as follows:
- Criminal Records Bureau
Forensic Science Service
Prison Service Agency
UK Passport Agency
- Central Police Training & Development Authority (Centrex)
Community Development Foundation
Commission for Racial Equality
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
Independent Police Complaints Commission
National Crime Squad
National Criminal Intelligence Service
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
Parole Board
Police Complaints Authority
Police Information Technology Organisation
Security Industry Authority
Youth Justice Board
Police
Paddy Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) civilian police staff were employed in (i) Avon and Somerset, (ii) Bedforshire, (iii) Leicestershire and (iv) South Yorkshire on (A) 31 March 1997, (B) 31 March 2003 and (C) 31 August 2003. [138844]
Ms Blears: The available information is given in the tables:
| 31 March 1997 | 31 March 2003 | 31 August 2003 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon and Somerset | 2,989 | 3,160 | 3,304 |
| Bedfordshire | 1,094 | 1,119 | 1,132 |
| Leicestershire | 1,949 | 2,147 | 2,159 |
| South Yorkshire | 3,159 | 3,194 | 3,210 |
(31) Full time equivalents
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| 31 March 1997 | 31 March 2003 | 31 August 2003 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon and Somerset | 1,330 | 1,785 | (34)— |
| Bedfordshire | 484 | 595 | (34)— |
| Leicestershire | 755 | 934 | (34)— |
| South Yorkshire | 1,291 | 1,510 | (34)— |
(32) Full time equivalents
(33) Excludes traffic wardens
(34) Not available
Police (Firearms)
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to release the 2002–03 authorised firearms officer figures for all forces in England and Wales; what the cause of the delay in releasing the figures is; and if he will make a statement. [139068]
Ms Blears: The police use of firearms statistics for 2002–03 are currently being validated and I hope to release them by way of a ministerial statement early in the new year.
Police Funding
Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the projected funding per head of population for each police authority in England and Wales is in 2003–04. [138231]
Ms Blears: The information is set out in the table.
(35) Government funding includes Home Office police grant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Welsh Assembly Government Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates, Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Grant, Airwave, DNA Expansion Programme, Community Support Officers, London and South East Allowances, Free Travel for City of London and MPS, Basic Command Unit funding, Street Crime Initiative, Special Priority Payments from the PNB agreement, Counter Terrorism (PMS only), Capital grant and the premises Improvement Fund.
(36) Source for resident population figures:Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The figures are as used for calculation of grant under the Police Funding Formula.
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Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the projected funding for 2004 is for each police authority in England and Wales under the Rural Sparsity Grant. [138233]
Ms Blears: I shall announce details of the Rural Policing Fund allocations for 2004–05 with the provisional police funding settlement for 2004–05.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what police funding was allocated to the North West in each year since 1992. [134898]
Ms Blears: The information is set out in the tables.
| Government Revenue Grant(37)(£ million) | |
|---|---|
| 1992–93(38) | n/a |
| 1993–94(38) | n/a |
| 1994–95(38) | n/a |
| 1995–96 | 752.65 |
| 1996–97 | 789.41 |
| 1997–98 | 805.79 |
| 1998–99 | 834.17 |
| 1999–2000 | 852.13 |
| 2000–01 | 884.26 |
| 2001–02(39) | 939.82 |
| 2002–03 | 962.04 |
| 2003–04 | 1,022.16 |
(37) Government Grant includes Home Office police grant, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Revenue Support Grant and non national domestic rates, Crime Fighting Fund, Rural Policing Grant, Basic Command Unit funding, Community Support Officer funding, DNA Expansion Programme, Street Crime Initiative and Special Priority payments.
(38) Before 1995–96, when most Police Authorities became independent local authorities, revenue support grant and non-national domestic rates were paid as part of respective county council grant funding.
(39) The grant figures for 2001–02 and 2002–03 are not directly comparable, owing to changes from 2002–03 in the method of funding the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service. Based on the new arrangements, comparable grant figure for 2001–02 would have been £917,614,378.
* The North West region is policed by Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside forces.
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In addition, the North West forces received the following funding in capital grant, including Airwave and the Premises Improvement Fund.
| North West Region, Capital Grants(£ million) | |
|---|---|
| 1995–96 | 22.54 |
| 1996–97 | 17.73 |
| 1997–98 | 19.05 |
| 1998–99 | 12.92 |
| 1999–2000 | 13.46 |
| 2000–01 | 17.59 |
| 2001–02 | 45.46 |
| 2002–03 | 36.56 |
| 2003–04 | 34.96 |
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