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Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the operation of section (a) 33 and (b) 36 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; and what recent representations he has received on the operation of each section. [97944]
Mr. McNulty: Section 33 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 amended section 125(3) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1990. Section 125(3) was subsequently repealed by the Access to Justice Act 1999.
Section 36 of PACE sets out the requirement for custody officers to be appointed at each designated police station. Section 121 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCAP), which is yet to be brought into force, amends section 36 of PACE to enable police sergeants or staff custody officers to be appointed as custody officers.
The SOCAP amendment was subject to full public consultation in the paper ‘Modernising Police Powers to Meet Community Needs’. The consultation paper and the summary of responses are both available on the Home Office website.
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what grants are made from public funds to the (a) gay, (b) black and (c) Christian police associations; and what other associations there are representing groups within the police. [96452]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 23 October 2006]: For the financial year 2005-06 the National Black Police Association submitted a bid for £391,500 funding and received £172,610, the Gay Police Association submitted a bid for £195,224 funding and received £120,480. The Home Office did not provide funding to the Christian Police Association during that period and did not receive a bid for funding.
A record is not kept of every staff association that exists within the police service. However, national associations which represent minority staff within the police service, and are supported by the Home Office, include the British Association of Women in Policing, who bid for £77,290 in 2005-06 and received that amount, and the National Disabled Police Association, who did not submit a bid for funding but received £10,000.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers (a) were recruited by and (b) retired from the service with Lancashire Constabulary in each of the last five years. [97447]
Mr. McNulty: This is matter for the chief constable.
Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total funding from the Home Office was to each police authority in Wales for the last five years for which figures are available. [98625]
Mr. McNulty: Government funding for Welsh police authorities for the last five years is set out in the following tables:
| Welsh Funding Figures, 2002-07 | |||
| Dyfed-Powys Police: Funding | |||
| £ | |||
| General Government grants( 1) | Specific grants and capital provision( 2) | Total Government grants | |
| Gwent Police: Funding | |||
| £ | |||
| General Government grants( 1) | Specific grants and capital provision( 2) | Total Government grants | |
| North Wales Police: Funding | |||
| £ | |||
| General Government grants( 1) | Specific grants and capital provision( 2) | Total Government grants | |
| South Wales Police: Funding | |||
| £ | |||
| General Government grants( 1) | Specific grants and capital provision( 2) | Total Government grants | |
| (1) Comprises Home office principal police grant and National Assembly for Wales Revenue Support Grant and redistributed business rates. (2) Specific Grants include: Crime Fighting Fund, Basic Command Unit Fund, Community Support Officers continuation funding, Neighbourhood Policing Fund, Airwave, Premises Improvement Fund. The Rural Policing Fund, Forensic Grant and Special Priority Payments were consolidated into Special Formula Grant in 2006-07. (3) Home Office payment for ‘floor’ support included in general grant. (4) Adjusted for comparison purposes following the transfer of pensions and security funding from general grant in 2006-07. (5) 2004-05 figures not directly comparable following the removal of PFI funding out of RSG. The increase was actually 3.75 per cent. (6) In 2004-05 North Wales received additional PFI funding. | |||
Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding is available from his Department to police authorities in Wales to employ police community support officers. [98675]
Mr. McNulty: The following table shows Home Office funding available during 2006-07 to police authorities in Wales to employ police community support officers.
| CSO Funding 2006-07 | £ million |
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funding has been made available to (a) each branch of the Metropolitan Police Force and (b) each county force in 2005-06. [99509]
Mr. McNulty: The Government allocate funding to police authorities. The funding made available to each branch of the Metropolitan Police is a matter for the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis.
Government funding for police authorities in England and Wales in 2005-06, including the Metropolitan Police Authority, is set out in the following table.
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