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Ministerial Corrections

Tuesday 21 July 2009

Home Department

Association of Chief Police Officers

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department has paid to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in each year since 2000; for what purpose; what restrictions apply to the use of the money; what discussions she has had since January 2008 with the President of ACPO; and if she will make a statement. [259061

[Official Report, 20 April 2009, Vol. 491, c. 146-48W.]

Letter of correction from David Hanson:

An error has been identified in the table that was presented by my predecessor in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) on 20 April 2009.

In my predecessor's response to your question he referred to a list of projects as an annex to the answer.
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In the annex Operation Sycamore was listed as being an investigation into prostitution project, this was in fact incorrect. Operation Sycamore is a project to fund clearance of the backlog of 27,000 European Conviction notifications. £700,000 was given for this in 2006-07, with a further £31,339 given in 2008-09.

The correct answer should have been:

Mr. Coaker: The Home Office has provided funding for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 1997.

In addition to an annual grant in aid payment, the Home Office has made regular payments to ACPO to fund a number of specific projects or in support of initiatives that are best delivered by those with professional police experience. All the grants are prescribed only for the project or use specified. From the information currently held by the Department, the payments made to ACPO since 2006/07 have been listed as an annex to this response.

The Home Secretary and I meet with the President of ACPO, regularly to discuss a range of issues, including the projects in which ACPO are involved. This is in addition to frequent telephone conversations and joint attendance at conferences and events. Formal notes of these meetings are not available to place in the House Library.

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Home Office payments to ACPO
	Financial year
Project	2006-07 (£)	2007-08 (£)	2008-09 (£)	Detail( 1)
Grant Aid	836,232	836,232	836,232	To meet the costs of the ACPO president and part of the ACPO office costs
ACIST	2,988,115	-	-	To fund the ACPO Change and Implementation Support Team
Criminal Records project	110,000	110,000	110,000	UK Central Authority for exchange of criminal records
Operation Sycamore	700,000	-	31,339	To fund clearance of the backlog of 27,000 European Conviction notifications
Community Tensions project	60,000	60,000	82,172	To fund the ACPO National Community Tensions Team
Domestic Extremism project	2,000,000,	2,000,000,	2,000,000,	To fund the ACPO Domestic Extremism Team
Disaster Victims Identification	253,128	314,296	216,060	To fund the ACPO UK DIVI Management Team
Stockwell project	-	230,000	-	Learning lessons of the Stockwell incident
Drugs Conference	-	-	10,000	Contribution to ACPO conference
Cannabis cultivation	-	-	40,000	Funding part of the costs of a co-ordinator
Wildlife crime	15,367	15,367	150,000	Funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit
Vehicle Intelligence	-	-	100,000	Funding for ACPO Vehicle Intelligence Service
Car Parking	200,000	185,000	130,000	Funding for ACPO Safer Car parking Scheme
Co-ordination of Counter-Terrorism policing	-	5,300,664	4,000,000	Funds the national co-ordination functions: the National Coordinator of Special Branch, media liaison work, CT training needs analysis and the police contribution to the Border Management programme.
Prevent	-	355,586	1,159,500	Prevent Channel project
Prevent	-	-	4,705,810	Prevent policing
Protective Services	-	60,600	189,400	Co-ordination costs
Level 2	-	2,000,000	-	Level 2 project
Operation Overt	-	268,581	-	PNICC work on the air terrorist action
RIUs	8,000,000	8,000,000	-	Setting up regional intelligence units
Policing the Olympics	-	-	220,000	Co-ordinating work
Prisoner Intelligence Network	948,665	3,841,899	4,598,961	Support funding for programme
AVCIS (ACPO vehicle crime intelligence service)	-	420,000	-	Organised vehicle crime investigation
AVCIS-TruckPol	-	50,000	-	Freight crime intelligence service
ACPO Drugs CBA	10,000	10,000	-	Contribution to ACPO organised drugs conference
Operation Cube (ACRO)	450,000	0	0	DNA analysis
Operation Element (National Community Tension Team)	-	200,000	170,000	NCTT-Operation Element (2007-08 funding)
Knife Crime	0	0	81,250	Knife Crime £100,000 funding approximately agreed for 8 months (mid-September 2008 to mid-May 2009)
Domestic violence posters	0	0	4,690	Domestic violence awareness campaign. Grant agreement signed-funding awaited
Total	14,571,507	22,258,225	16,804,075	-
(1) Funding allocated for these purposes only.

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) budgetary support and (b) other funding her Department has given to the Association of Chief Police Officers in the last 12 months. [276791

[Official Report, 3 June 2009, Vol. 493, c. 553W.]

Letter of correction from David Hanson:

With reference to the answer given by my predecessor to the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski) on 3 June 2009 in which he refers him to the answer given previously to the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) on 20 April 2009, Official Report, columns 146-48W, unfortunately an error has been identified in the table that was presented by my predecessor in the written answer of 20 April 2009.

In my predecessor's response he referred to a list of projects as an annex to the answer. In the annex Operation Sycamore was listed as being an investigation into prostitution project, this was in fact incorrect. Operation Sycamore is a project to fund clearance of the backlog of 27,000 European Conviction notifications. £700,000 was given for this in 2006-07, with a further £31,339 given in 2008-09.

The correct answer should have been:

Mr. Coaker: The Home Office has provided funding for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 1997.

In addition to an annual grant in aid payment, the Home Office has made regular payments to ACPO to fund a number of specific projects or in support of initiatives that are best delivered by those with professional police experience. All the grants are prescribed only for the project or use specified. From the information currently held by the Department, the payments made to ACPO since 2006/07 have been listed as an annex to this response.

The Home Secretary and I meet with the President of ACPO, regularly to discuss a range of issues, including the projects in which ACPO are involved. This is in addition to frequent telephone conversations and joint attendance at conferences and events. Formal notes of these meetings are not available to place in the House Library.

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