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Police: Fuels

Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment she has made of the effect of increases in the cost of fuel on police services in (a) Hertfordshire and (b) England and Wales; and if she will make a statement; [217236]

(2) what recent representations she has received on the effect of increases in the cost of fuel on the police service; and if she will make a statement. [217237]

Mr. McNulty: We have received no such representations.

This is an operational matter for each police authority and chief constable.


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Police: Internet

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent on the website www.police.uk in each month since its inception; what the budget for the website is for 2008-09; how many staff are employed to maintain the website; and how many unique visitors there were to the website in each month since its inception. [200378]

Mr. McNulty: The website www.police.uk/ (also known as the ‘Police Portal’) provided a national communications channel for the police service. The total annual cost of running this service was just under £2 million per annum. Most of the costs associated with running the portal were charged on an annual basis and there was little variation from month to month.

There is no budget for the website in 2008-09 and no staff are currently employed to maintain this website. This is because the Police Portal service ceased on 31 March 2007 when the contract with the service provider then providing the operational service came to an end.

The numbers of unique visitors per month can only be estimated. However, on the basis of the IP addresses used it is estimated that in the period from 1 January 2006 until the portal's cessation on 31 March 2007 the numbers of unique visitors were as follows:


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Number

January 2006

52,516

February 2006

46,338

March 2006

50,084

April 2006

47,775

May 2006

49,935

June 2006

47,051

July 2006

45,063

August 2006

76,386

September 2006

68,880

October 2006

57,802

November 2006

57,259

December 2006

75,101

January 2007

92,424

February 2007

84,294

March 2007

84,851


Police: North Yorkshire

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the level of provision of policing in the sparsely populated countryside of north Yorkshire; and if she will make a statement. [220018]

Mr. McNulty: The provision of policing across the force area is a matter for the chief officer and the police authority.

Police: Pay

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) the total and (b) the average overtime payments for police officers were in each police force in England and Wales for each year since 1997. [219106]

Mr. McNulty: Data on police overtime is produced by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Police officer overtime for 1997-98 to 2006-07, broken down by police force areas, is shown in table A as follows. The average overtime payment can be calculated by dividing the overtime payment by the official number of police officers for that year (using Home Office figures) and is shown in table B as follows.


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Table A: Total Police Officer overtime expenditure by force, 1997-98 to 2006-07
Overtime spend £000
Force 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-0 7

Avon and Somerset

2,835

3,103

4,054

3,443

5,112

7,000

6,899

6,870

5,351

5,801

Bedfordshire

1,603

2,132

2,372

2,709

3,992

4,106

4,708

4,693

4,181

4,398

Cambridgeshire

2,008

2,081

2,279

2,920

4,102

5,175

4,238

5,550

4,976

Cheshire

2,946

2,875

3,406

3,175

3,200

4,751

4,261

3,278

3,951

5,275

City of London

1,554

1,386

1,934

2,065

2,375

2,602

2,135

2,185

1,955

1,096

Cleveland

1,691

1,986

2,713

2,096

2,996

4,035

3,479

2,188

4,038

4,834

Cumbria

1,256

1,376

1,865

1,730

2,095

2,314

2,201

2,317

2,042

Derbyshire

2,108

2,287

3,512

2,718

3,278

4,010

3,542

4,009

3,822

3,778

Devon and Cornwall

3,634

3,988

4,653

4,831

7,658

6,441

5,476

6,026

6,566

6,568

Dorset

1,606

1,619

1,812

1,976

2,233

2,880

2,790

3,581

3,089

3,413

Durham

2,046

2,550

2,835

2,538

3,083

3,151

2,868

3,325

3,158

3,221

Dyfed-Powys

1,437

1,504

1,582

1,694

2,017

2,458

1,794

1,936

2,163

2,724

Essex

4,983

6,117

7,204

8,708

8,401

10,601

8,678

10,444

10,688

10,944

Gloucestershire

1,625

1,826

2,416

2,209

2,337

3,257

3,430

2,766

3,273

2,854

Greater Manchester

7,907

8,902

13,999

12,518

15,981

19,438

14,727

16,138

16,226

22,671

Gwent

1,788

1,954

2,934

2,993

3,020

3,184

4,077

3,447

4,123

3,993

Hampshire

6,016

7,367

8,322

7,109

8,557

11,603

9,703

11,818

11,243

12,001

Hertfordshire

2,907

2,806

3,840

7,056

9,036

7,494

6,854

6,576

6,742

Humberside

3,046

3,304

4,259

4,486

5,760

5,790

5,375

5,896

5,991

7,461

Kent

4,984

5,307

6,695

6,941

7,420

10,301

9,523

9,877

11,405

11,992

Lancashire

4,006

4,853

3,360

4,772

6,773

9,595

7,758

7,057

7,226

7,349

Leicestershire

2,634

2,787

3,122

2,946

3,305

4,404

4,123

4,342

4,720

4,482

Lincolnshire

1,781

1,702

2,380

2,945

2,537

3,199

2,193

2,856

2,345

2,214

Merseyside

6,372

8,411

9,207

8,848

10,455

11,144

11,637

12,577

12,103

11,215

Metropolitan Police

57,483

61,816

83,713

94,930

96,428

112,228

132,815

135,717

150,274

136,901

Norfolk

3,260

2,826

3,694

3,848

3,737

3,884

3,653

3,950

3,640

3,374

North Wales

1,798

1,798

2,389

2,594

2,740

3,446

3,885

3,403

4,099

2,767

North Yorkshire

2,111

2,364

3,048

3,738

3,584

3,534

3,199

3,690

4,889

4,352

Northamptonshire

1,865

2,181

2,157

2,197

2,688

1,311

2,991

2,246

834

Northumbria

5,037

5,007

3,970

4,421

4,776

6,217

6,452

7,395

7,736

8,135

Nottinghamshire

2,215

2,660

3,567

3,210

4,304

4,626

6,782

5,886

5,091

South Wales

2,599

2,805

3,845

4,181

3,993

4,977

5,328

6,291

5,002

6,473

South Yorkshire

5,661

5,712

6,218

5,605

8,097

7,601

8,962

9,467

9,605

Staffordshire

3,080

3,347

4,664

5,089

7,580

6,241

5,973

6,054

5,210

Suffolk

1,304

1,421

1,367

1,760

1,775

1,815

2,031

2,171

2,041

3,467

Surrey

2,457

3,999

5,028

5,674

6,573

5,676

6,228

6,322

6,354

Sussex

3,985

3,753

14,418

8,159

6,098

7,971

8,887

8,213

7,271

Thames Valley

7,408

6,919

7,713

8,381

12,052

12,006

11,504

12,345

11,810

15,897

Warwickshire

1,077

1,372

1,585

1,773

1,811

2,207

1,945

2,279

3,056

3,207

West Mercia

2,654

2,896

3,088

3,837

4,495

4,857

4,503

4,491

4,107

5,237

West Midlands

8,657

10,283

9,838

11,366

18,785

16,637

18,009

23,496

20,081

West Yorkshire

6,461

5,365

6,746

7,322

11,839

13,510

10,997

13,549

13,323

13,244

Wiltshire

1,408

1,535

2,028

1,850

1,770

1,940

1,440

2,430

1,903

2,385


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