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Total funding for police authorities in England and Wales
£ million
Police authority	1997-98	2002-03	2007-08
Avon and Somerset	163.9	210.1	286.7
Bedfordshire	61.8	80.5	103.8
Cambridgeshire	70.2	96.6	128.3
Cheshire	104.1	133.1	179.0
Cleveland	77.2	103.6	134.5
Cumbria	61.0	78.2	108.1
Derbyshire	100.0	131.3	169.3
Devon and Cornwall	162.0	214.8	290.6
Dorset	72.1	93.6	126.6
Durham	74.9	95.7	132.3
Essex	162.7	215.4	275.3
Gloucestershire	61.7	80.0	112.2
Hampshire	184.8	241.0	317.3
Hertfordshire	95.3	141.2	187.2
Humberside	110.3	138.9	187.7
Kent	177.8	229.7	310.6
Lancashire	172.0	217.0	292.1
Leicestershire	99.8	130.4	172.0
Lincolnshire	67.5	85.9	110.1
Norfolk	83.5	113.0	154.6
Northamptonshire	66.2	86.6	120.6
North Yorkshire	75.5	102.6	143.4
Nottinghamshire	124.4	157.9	200.0
Staffordshire	118.2	144.8	193.1
Suffolk	65.0	87.2	117.3
Surrey	93.9	139.1	197.6
Sussex	161.4	205.6	274.6
Thames Valley	216.7	282.5	388.6
Warwickshire	52.5	70.5	92.2
West Mercia	111.3	155.3	206.1
Wiltshire	65.4	83.9	109.9
Shires	3,311.6	4,344.5	5,820.3

Greater Manchester	363.0	445.3	596.8
Merseyside	241.3	294.3	367.4
Northumbria	202.7	237.1	309.3
South Yorkshire	164.9	205.6	267.6
West Midlands	363.9	444.7	591.1
West Yorkshire	275.5	350.7	451.1
Prov Mets	1,611.1	1,977.5	2,583.1

Metropolitan	1,769.4	2,291.7	3,123.2

Total England	6,692.0	8,613.6	11,526.6

Dyfed-Powys	50.9	71.4	97.1
Gwent	66.0	89.9	120.4
North Wales	73.7	102.5	145.5
South Wales	161.8	206.0	266.7
Total Wales	352.2	469.7	629.5

Total England and Wales	7,044.2	9,083.2	12,156.0
Notes: 1. Excludes City of London Police. 2. Total funding is made up of government general formula grant, specific grants, capital grant and local funding raised through the police precept on council tax.

Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to announce the 2008-09 funding settlement for police authorities. [155291]

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Mr. McNulty: I expect the announcement to take place with the Local Government Finance Provisional Settlement in late November/early December.

Work Permits: Health Professions

Mr. Lilley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many work permit applications for foreign (a) nurses and (b) doctors from each country in North Africa and the Middle
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East for which figures are available were approved in each year in the period between 1 January 2000 and 31st May 2007. [148076]

Mr. Byrne [holding answer 9 July 2007]: The following tables show the number of work permit applications by nurses and doctors which were approved for overseas nationals by country, in the period 1 January 2000 to 31 May 2007 from (a) North Africa and (b) the Middle East.

	2000			2001			2002			2003
	Doctor	Nurse	Total	Doctor	Nurse	Total	Doctor	Nurse	Total	Doctor	Nurse	Total
North Africa
Algeria	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	5	0	5	5	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Egypt	20	⁽¹⁾—	20	100	5	105	115	5	120	115	0	115
Ethiopia	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	5	5	0	5	5
Libya	20	⁽¹⁾—	20	35	5	40	55	⁽¹⁾—	55	60	0	60
Mauritania	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Niger	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Somalia	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	5	5	0	5	5
Sudan	15	5	20	20	5	25	35	5	35	45	5	50
Tunisia	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	50	10	65	160	20	180	205	25	230	225	20	240

Middle East
Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0
Bahrain	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	5	⁽¹⁾—	5	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—
Brunei	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Iran	0	5	5	5	10	15	10	5	15	20	15	35
Iraq	5	0	5	5	0	5	10	0	10	25	0	25
Israel	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	5	5	⁽¹⁾—	5	10	5	5	10
Jordan	0	80	80	5	55	55	10	65	75	20	50	70
Kuwait	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0
Lebanon	5	0	5	5	⁽¹⁾—	5	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	5	5	5
Oman	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Palestine	0	5	5	5	5	5	5	⁽¹⁾—	5	5	10	15
Palestinian Aut	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Qatar	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Syrian Arab Rep	5	5	5	25	5	30	30	5	35	55	0	55
Turkey	0	10	10	⁽¹⁾—	10	10	⁽¹⁾—	10	15	5	10	10
United Arab Emi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	0	⁽¹⁾—
Yemen Republic	0	0	0	5	⁽¹⁾—	5	0	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Total	10	100	110	55	90	145	75	105	160	135	95	235

Total	65	110	175	215	110	325	280	125	405	360	115	475

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