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19 Dec 2006 : Column 1972W—continued
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |||||
| Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | |
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |||||
| Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | |
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006( 3) | |||||
| Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | Total Officers | Total Officer per 100,000 population | |
| (1) Full-time equivalent figures given to the nearest whole number. Excludes staff on career breaks or maternity or paternity leave. (2) Population data are taken from ONS mid year estimates from mid-1991 to mid-2005. (3 )Population data for mid-2006 are not available yet, therefore mid-2005 figures have been used for calculation. | ||||||||
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police stations there were in (a) Cornwall, (b) Devon, (c) the South West and (d) England in each year since 1995. [108257]
Mr. McNulty: The management of the police estate and allocation of resources are matters for each police authority and the Chief Officer, who are responsible for assessing local needs.
The figures on police station numbers is not collected on a county basis but by police force area. Therefore, the information provided is for Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, South West police forces and England police forces (excluding Welsh police forces).
Information provided by the forces is set out in the following table.
| Number of police stations in (a) Devon and Cornwall (b) South West and (c) England since March 1995 | |||
| As at March: | (a) Devon and Cornwall( 1) | (b)( ) South West( 1,2) | (c) England |
| (1 )Devon and Cornwall did not provide any data prior to 2002 and amended their figures in September 2003. (2) South West includes: Avon and Somerset(3) Devon and Cornwall Dorset Gloucestershire Wiltshire (3) Avon and Somerset amended figures in September 2004. | |||
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many special constables operate under private sponsorship arrangements. [108310]
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the (a) Metropolitan and (b) City of London police forces were called in to handle an incident on a (i) Transport for London bus and (ii) Transport for London Underground train in 2006. [110177]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available centrally as statistics are not collected for those locations.
Police: Vehicles
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many vehicles each police force in England and Wales owns, broken down by (a) category and (b) value. [107664]
Mr. McNulty: The information is not collected centrally. This is a matter for individual chief officers of police, who are responsible for the effective use of police resources.
Police Finance
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much per capita funding was given by his Department to Avon and Somerset police for (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07; and what the overall figure was for police forces in England and Wales in each year. [104692]
Mr. McNulty: The information requested is set out in the following table.
We do not distribute grant to police authorities purely on the basis of population. The police funding formula uses a range of socio-demographic data to reflect the relative needs of each authority. Grant allocations also take into account the relative resources of each authority. Grant allocations are stabilised by damping changes to limit year-on-year variations.
| Government grant funding( 1) per head of population( 2) | ||
| Funding per head of population | ||
| Police authority | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| (1) Government funding includes general grant (Home Office police grant, DCLG/Welsh Assembly government revenue support grant and national non-domestic rates). It also includes specific grants: crime fighting fund, rural policing fund, basic command unit funding, community support officer funding (including in 2005-06 round 1 of the neighbourhood policing fund), airwave, DNA expansion programme, special priority payments and capital grants. (2) Source for resident population figures: Department for Communities and Local Government and Welsh Assembly government as used in the calculation of the police funding settlements. (3) City of London not included. | ||
Police and Support Officers
Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) police officers and (b) civilian police support officers were stationed in the Sunderland city council area in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent year for which figures are available. [110064]
Mr. McNulty: Data for the Sunderland city council area are not available. The available data for the Sunderland basic command unit and for the Northumbria police force are given in the following tables.
| Police officer and police community support officer strength (FTE) for Sunderland basic command unit as at 31 March 1997 and latest available dates | |||
| As at 31 March 1997 | As at 30 June 2005 | As at 31 March 2006 | |
| (1) FTE figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Data are not available prior to 2002-03. Latest available figures are as at 31 March 2006. (2) FTE figures rounded to the nearest whole number. Includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Police community support officers were introduced in statute in 2002, therefore data are not available prior to 2002-03. Data collated and published by Police Human Resources Unit. These data were provided by the force and do not form part of National Statistics. Latest available figures are as at 30 June 2005, data for 2005-06 are currently being validated. n/a = not available | |||
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