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Stewart Hosie:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dispatched passports have been reported lost since October 2006; and what estimate she has made of the number of such passports that may have been stolen. [171128]
Meg Hillier:
For the period October 2006 to August 2007, the latest period for which data are available, the estimated number of passports recorded as lost during the delivery process is 665. Of these, 584 are recorded as mis-posted by the courier, 78 as a consequence of a theft from or attack on a courier, and three were
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reported as lost within Secure Mail Services, the courier company that delivers passports on behalf of IPS.
All confirmed losses are cancelled on the IPS system and details entered onto the centralised database of lost and stolen passports, and all passports contain security features to prevent misuse.
Police Service Pay Award
Tom Brake:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the total cost is of backdating the Police Service Pay Award from 1 December to 1 September. [175384]
Mr. McNulty
[holding answer 18 December 2007]: Approximately £40 million.
Police: Finance
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how much funding was allocated per head of population to each police authority in England and Wales in each year since 1997; [172868]
(2) what the total police grant funding was for each police authority in each year since 1997. [172869]
Mr. McNulty:
The information requested is set out in the table.
The Government do not distribute grant to police authorities purely on the basis of population. The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics to reflect the relative needs of each authority. Grant allocations also take into account the relative tax base of each authority. Grant allocations are stabilised by damping to limit year-on-year variations.
| Police authority total Government grant allocations 2006-07 and 2007-08 |
| | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 |
| Police authority | Government Grant( 1,2) (£ million) | Resident population (million) | Government Grant( 1,2) (£ million) | Resident population (million) | Government Grant( 1,2) (£ million) | Resident population (million) | Government Grant( 1,2) (£ million) | Resident population (million) |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
134.80
|
1.46
|
139.75
|
1.47
|
142.56
|
1.48
|
146.96
|
1.49
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
50.14
|
0.55
|
51.90
|
0.55
|
51.97
|
0.56
|
54.24
|
0.56
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
57.23
|
0.70
|
60.66
|
0.70
|
62.87
|
0.70
|
66.89
|
0.71
|
|
Cheshire
|
85.08
|
0.98
|
88.15
|
0.98
|
91.65
|
0.98
|
94.16
|
0.98
|
|
Cleveland
|
67.59
|
0.55
|
72.66
|
0.55
|
73.65
|
0.55
|
76.30
|
0.55
|
|
Cumbria
|
50.94
|
0.49
|
51.11
|
0.49
|
51.84
|
0.49
|
53.66
|
0.49
|
|
Derbyshire
|
81.06
|
0.95
|
83.35
|
0.96
|
87.29
|
0.96
|
94.24
|
0.96
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
132.97
|
1.54
|
141.09
|
1.54
|
146.70
|
1.55
|
152.88
|
1.57
|
|
Dorset
|
54.09
|
0.68
|
54.88
|
0.68
|
56.58
|
0.69
|
58.82
|
0.69
|
|
Durham
|
65.06
|
0.60
|
69.68
|
0.60
|
72.46
|
0.59
|
74.77
|
0.59
|
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
24.67
|
0.48
|
25.21
|
0.48
|
25.92
|
0.48
|
26.77
|
0.49
|
|
Essex
|
129.70
|
1.58
|
131.53
|
1.59
|
132.75
|
1.60
|
142.51
|
1.61
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
50.59
|
0.56
|
51.78
|
0.56
|
52.12
|
0.56
|
52.88
|
0.56
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
315.27
|
2.52
|
328.12
|
2.52
|
337.39
|
2.52
|
351.70
|
2.52
|
|
Gwent
|
31.82
|
0.55
|
33.27
|
0.55
|
34.85
|
0.55
|
35.83
|
0.55
|
|
Hampshire
|
150.38
|
1.75
|
158.77
|
1.76
|
162.66
|
1.77
|
169.64
|
1.77
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
76.02
|
1.01
|
77.23
|
1.02
|
82.42
|
1.02
|
92.89
|
1.03
|
|
Humberside
|
93.43
|
0.88
|
97.83
|
0.88
|
99.71
|
0.87
|
103.06
|
0.87
|
|
Kent
|
141.72
|
1.55
|
151.44
|
1.55
|
154.31
|
1.56
|
162.74
|
1.57
|
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|
Lancashire
|
146.86
|
1.41
|
153.65
|
1.41
|
155.94
|
1.41
|
163.35
|
1.41
|
|
Leicestershire
|
83.88
|
0.92
|
85.27
|
0.92
|
87.84
|
0.92
|
90.60
|
0.92
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
52.23
|
0.62
|
51.13
|
0.63
|
53.30
|
0.63
|
56.43
|
0.64
|
|
Merseyside
|
207.64
|
1.39
|
213.25
|
1.39
|
215.31
|
1.38
|
220.65
|
1.37
|
|
Metropolitan(5)
|
1,610.26
|
7.01
|
1,633.26
|
7.06
|
1,658.78
|
7.15
|
1,601.10
|
7.23
|
|
Norfolk
|
65.65
|
0.77
|
68.10
|
0.78
|
69.95
|
0.79
|
74.20
|
0.79
|
|
North Wales
|
34.96
|
0.65
|
36.27
|
0.66
|
37.95
|
0.66
|
39.16
|
0.66
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
59.23
|
0.73
|
62.62
|
0.73
|
63.89
|
0.74
|
66.55
|
0.74
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
50.77
|
0.61
|
53.28
|
0.62
|
55.14
|
0.62
|
57.14
|
0.63
|
|
Northumbria
|
173.67
|
1.42
|
185.28
|
1.41
|
192.25
|
1.40
|
197.06
|
1.40
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
104.73
|
1.02
|
108.06
|
1.02
|
110.75
|
1.02
|
113.91
|
1.02
|
|
South Wales
|
76.37
|
1.21
|
79.54
|
1.21
|
81.98
|
1.21
|
84.27
|
1.21
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
141.47
|
1.28
|
147.75
|
1.27
|
152.90
|
1.27
|
159.24
|
1.27
|
|
Staffordshire
|
96.15
|
1.05
|
95.09
|
1.05
|
96.27
|
1.05
|
100.13
|
1.05
|
|
Suffolk
|
52.57
|
0.66
|
55.14
|
0.66
|
57.29
|
0.67
|
59.09
|
0.67
|
|
Surrey
|
75.60
|
1.04
|
67.61
|
1.04
|
67.61
|
1.06
|
83.09
|
1.06
|
|
Sussex
|
127.99
|
1.46
|
134.66
|
1.47
|
137.03
|
1.49
|
142.03
|
1.49
|
|
Thames Valley
|
171.15
|
2.06
|
181.27
|
2.07
|
184.64
|
2.08
|
193.02
|
2.09
|
|
Warwickshire
|
42.18
|
0.50
|
42.54
|
0.50
|
43.16
|
0.50
|
44.98
|
0.50
|
|
West Mercia
|
87.74
|
1.13
|
90.86
|
1.14
|
92.92
|
1.14
|
98.36
|
1.15
|
|
West Midlands
|
317.34
|
2.59
|
335.10
|
2.59
|
342.16
|
2.58
|
357.58
|
2.57
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
238.20
|
2.07
|
249.54
|
2.07
|
255.01
|
2.07
|
268.61
|
2.07
|
|
Wiltshire
|
52.08
|
0.59
|
52.87
|
0.60
|
53.84
|
0.60
|
57.20
|
0.61
|
| | | | | | | | | |
|
England and Wales total
|
5,861.30
|
51.56
|
6,050.55
|
51.71
|
6,185.59
|
51.93
|
4,737.60
|
52.13
|
