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Police: Finance
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the level of crime on the police funding formula in each of the last 10 years. [195644]
Mr. McNulty:
The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics, which are heavily weighted by changes in population, to allocate grant and reflect the relative needs of each police authority.
Changes in the level of crime are not factored into the police funding formula when calculating grant allocations per se, as to do so, would create perverse incentives for police authorities and forces.
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces in England and Wales are receiving funding (a) above the formula funding level, (b) at the formula funding level and (c) below the formula funding level in 2007-08; and if she will make a statement. [195692]
Mr. McNulty:
The information requested is set out in the following table.
The damping mechanism exists to protect all authorities against financial instability and ensures all authorities receive an increase in grant at least equal to the “floor” level on a like-for-like basis year-on-year.
For the three years of the comprehensive spending review we have set the funding floor at 2.5 per cent. This will mean that each police authority in England and Wales is guaranteed an increase of at least that amount in each of the next three years while enabling us to move towards fuller implementation of the needs based funding formula.
| Police grant floors 2007-08 |
| £ million |
| | 2007-08 allocation | |
| Police authority | Before floors and ceilings( 1,2) | After floors and ceilings( 2,3) | Amount gained or lost |
|
English shire forces
| | | |
|
Avon and Somerset
|
179.8
|
167.9
|
-11.9
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
70.6
|
66.4
|
-4.3
|
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Cambridgeshire
|
79.2
|
76.5
|
-2.7
|
|
Cheshire
|
109.1
|
114.8
|
5.7
|
|
Cleveland
|
91.2
|
93
|
1.8
|
|
Cumbria
|
52.2
|
64
|
11.8
|
|
Derbyshire
|
111.5
|
105.8
|
-5.7
|
|
Devon and Cornwall
|
175.6
|
177.5
|
1.9
|
|
Dorset
|
60.9
|
62.2
|
1.3
|
|
Durham
|
82
|
87
|
5.0
|
|
Essex
|
169.4
|
168.5
|
-0.9
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
55.9
|
56.5
|
0.6
|
|
Hampshire
|
198.6
|
197.3
|
-1.3
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
119
|
114.4
|
-4.6
|
|
Humberside
|
117.7
|
122
|
4.3
|
|
Kent
|
182.1
|
182.6
|
0.5
|
|
Lancashire
|
192.1
|
193.7
|
1.6
|
|
Leicestershire
|
114.5
|
111.5
|
-3.0
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
62
|
60.5
|
-1.6
|
|
Norfolk
|
79.8
|
83.4
|
3.6
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
66.2
|
73
|
6.8
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
71.1
|
71.7
|
0.6
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
137.6
|
132.5
|
-5.1
|
|
Staffordshire
|
114.5
|
114.3
|
-0.3
|
|
Suffolk
|
65.4
|
67.6
|
2.2
|
|
Surrey
|
95.7
|
97
|
1.3
|
|
Sussex
|
154.9
|
161.7
|
6.8
|
|
Thames Valley
|
234
|
225.9
|
-8.1
|
|
Warwickshire
|
53.1
|
51.5
|
-1.7
|
|
West Mercia
|
107.1
|
116
|
8.9
|
|
Wiltshire
|
60.2
|
62
|
1.8
|
| | | | |
|
Greater Manchester
|
446.2
|
432.7
|
-13.6
|
|
Merseyside
|
255.7
|
253.8
|
-1.8
|
|
Northumbria
|
209.2
|
238
|
28.8
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
193
|
194.3
|
1.2
|
|
West Midlands
|
498.3
|
450.2
|
-48.1
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
332.6
|
317.6
|
-15.1
|
| | | | |
|
GLA—police
|
1,850.6
|
1,883.7
|
33.1
|
| | | | |
|
Welsh forces
| | | |
|
Dyfed-Powys
|
47.3
|
51.8
|
4.5
|
|
Gwent
|
75.5
|
78.7
|
3.2
|
|
North Wales
|
67.7
|
76.3
|
8.6
|
|
South Wales
|
175.6
|
172.2
|
-3.4
|
(1) Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated using the Police Funding Formula for 2004-05. This includes the Metropolitan Police special payment.
(2) Figures for the City of London are excluded because these are allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions. The City of London is grouped with education authorities for floors and ceilings purposes.
(3) Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated under the Local Government Finance Report (England) and Local Government Finance Report (Wales). This includes the Metropolitan Police special payment, and the effects of floors and ceilings.
|
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how changes in population are taken into account when calculating the total resource allocation formula for police forces. [195703]
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Mr. McNulty:
The police funding formula uses a range of data relating to demographic and social characteristics, which are heavily weighted by changes in population, to allocate grant and reflect the relative needs of each police authority.
When calculating formula grant allocations, the best information available at the time that treats all authorities on a consistent basis is used. Population data is provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Police: Firearms
Mr. Ruffley:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers were (a) shot at, (b) injured by shootings and (c) killed by shootings in each police force area in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [195619]
Mr. McNulty:
Information on firearms offences (excluding air weapons) in which the weapon was fired but did not cause injury and the principle victim was a police officer on duty, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 is given in table (a).
Data relating to crimes recorded by the police in which a police officer on duty was injured by a firearm (excluding air weapon) by the weapon being fired, from 2002-03 up to and including 2006-07 and are given on table (b).
| Table a: Crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in which a firearm (excluding air weapon) was fired but did not cause injury and the principle victim was a police officer on duty, 2002-03 to 2006-07 |
| | Police force area | Number of offences |
|
2002-03(1)
|
Metropolitan
|
14
|
| |
Nottinghamshire
|
1
|
| |
England and Wales total
|
15
|
| | | |
|
2003-04
|
Avon and Somerset
|
1
|
| |
Merseyside
|
1
|
| |
Metropolitan
|
7
|
| |
Surrey
|
1
|
| |
West Midlands
|
2
|
| |
West Yorkshire
|
1
|
| |
England and Wales total
|
13
|
| | | |
|
2004-05(2)
|
Greater Manchester
|
2
|
| |
Humberside
|
1
|
| |
Metropolitan
|
2
|
| |
England and Wales total
|
5
|
| | | |
|
2005-06
|
Greater Manchester
|
1
|
| |
Leicestershire
|
2
|
| |
Metropolitan
|
3
|
| |
Northamptonshire
|
1
|
| |
Northumbria
|
1
|
| |
West Yorkshire'
|
3
|
| |
England and Wales total
|
11
|
| | | |
|
2006-07
|
Greater Manchester
|
2
|
| |
Merseyside
|
1
|
| |
Metropolitan
|
2
|
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West Mercia
|
1
|
| |
West Yorkshire
|
1
|
| |
England and Wales total
|
7
|
(1) The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures for some crime categories may have been inflated by this.
(2) More explicit guidelines for the classification of weapons introduced on 1 April 2004 may have increased the recording of firearm offences particularly those committed by imitation weapons.
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