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Table 2: Police officer recruits( 1) (FTE)( 2) to police forces from 2002-03 to 2006-07
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Avon and Somerset	40	198	93	123	90
Bedfordshire	89	178	106	54	45
Cambridgeshire	76	107	99	104	34
Cheshire	141	153	105	121	107
Cleveland	129	138	83	114	79
Cumbria	63	113	51	55	58
Derbyshire	146	146	64	66	84
Devon and Cornwall	138	131	200	255	98
Dorset	72	86	76	102	64
Durham	21	104	79	71	42
Essex	40	225	276	224	306
Gloucestershire	53	98	60	70	81
Greater Manchester	113	978	233	277	362
Hampshire	267	282	204	244	249
Hertfordshire	202	279	155	173	185
Humberside	56	188	126	93	95
Kent	192	290	193	209	233
Lancashire	240	311	148	196	165
Leicestershire	116	245	123	96	85
Lincolnshire	64	44	59	54	66
London, City of	44	52	39	41	30
Merseyside	101	192	389	161	312
Metropolitan Police	2,434	2,971	1,886	1,050	1,249
Norfolk	71	56	77	55	49
Northamptonshire	45	99	109	115	68
Northumbria	151	197	159	122	87
North Yorkshire	99	82	71	110	85
Nottinghamshire	89	138	138	54	46
South Yorkshire	103	261	205	148	164
Staffordshire	27	123	108	81	95
Suffolk	81	113	37	45	77
Surrey	92	116	130	124	157
Sussex	139	320	229	236	167
Thames Valley	306	479	361	374	219
Warwickshire	57	51	59	69	66
West Mercia	235	88	90	88	110
West Midlands	478	408	476	442	445
West Yorkshire	277	337	566	176	271
Wiltshire	62	120	70	50	28
Dyfed-Powys	7	53	35	54	47
Gwent	45	78	102	80	69
North Wales	77	66	71	51	44
South Wales	180	173	118	122	118
(1) Recruits included those officers joining as police standard Direct Recruits and those who were previously Special constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Full time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

Police: Rural Areas

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations she has received on the practice of requiring parish councils to pay for police patrols in rural areas. [199719]

Mr. McNulty: Parish councils and others write to me from time to time about a variety of funding issues but I have placed no requirement on them to pay for police patrols.

Police authorities set their own budgets, drawing on local revenues in addition to Government grant. They may seek further funding from the partners with whom they work, including parish councils, as evidence of their commitment to the partnership approach which is an essential element in the successful implementation of neighbourhood policing.

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