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Human Trafficking

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the UK Border Agency works together with (a) police officers and (b) local authorities to identify individuals who may have been trafficked. [19474]


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Damian Green: The UK Border Agency (UKBA) works together with police officers and local authorities within the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). The NRM is designed to make it easier for all the different agencies that could be involved in a trafficking case such as the police and local authorities to co-operate; to share information about potential victims and facilitate their access to advice, accommodation and support. The NRM Strategic Monitoring Group, which includes local authority and law enforcement representatives, oversees the NRM and looks to resolve issues as they arise.

Detailed trafficking guidance that highlights the importance of working with the police and local authorities has been issued to all UKBA staff:

Guidance for Competent Authorities available at:

Guidance for front-line staff available at:

UKBA also has strong regional partnership arrangements in place. Regional immigration crime teams, for example, are comprised of both UKBA staff and seconded police officers. The agency also has local immigration teams across the country that work alongside the police, HM Revenue and Customs, local authorities and other local partners to ensure compliance with, and enforce, our immigration laws.

Immigration

Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 14 October 2010, Official Report, column 403W, on immigration, from what countries of origin those people normally resident in the Peterborough City Council area who (a) applied for and (b) were granted indefinite leave to remain. [19104]

Damian Green: All the data requested have been placed in the Library.


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The UK Border Agency is unable to provide definitive data on the applicants address at the time of application. The information provided is therefore the applicants last known address.

The data in the Library list applications made for indefinite leave from April 2009 to March 2010 for applicants living in the Peterborough city council area.

This is internal management information and is subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

Immigration: Agriculture

Mr Bain: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has made an assessment of the likely effects of her Department's cap on immigration on the number of (a) farmers, (b) directors, (c) partners and (d) spouses in each agricultural sector in 2010-11. [18496]

Damian Green: The Government's consultation on the introduction of an annual limit on those admitted to work in the UK from outside the European closed in September. The Government will bring forward their proposals in due course. The Government will publish a full impact assessment when their proposals are announced.

Immigration: Kettering

Mr Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applicants for indefinite leave to remain in the UK had their last known address in (a) the borough of Kettering and (b) Northamptonshire in the latest period for which figures are available; how many such applicants were successful and of which nationalities the applicants were. [18582]

Damian Green [holding answer 21 October 2010]: The UK Border Agency is unable to provide definitive data on the applicants address at the time of application. The information provided is therefore the applicants last known address.

The following table lists applications made for indefinite leave from April 9 to March 10 for applicants living in the borough of Kettering and in Northamptonshire. It also shows the number of these applicants that were subsequently granted.

2009 2010

Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov De c Jan Feb March Total

Kettering

Number of applications made

10

16

17

16

13

12

4

5

9

9

21

8

140

Number of these applications granted

9

11

13

15

12

11

4

5

7

9

18

6

120

Northamptonshire

Number of applications made

104

100

106

115

88

86

50

40

81

97

103

116

1086

Number of these applications granted

82

75

88

102

72

77

44

36

65

84

84

94

903


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This is internal management information and is subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

A full breakdown of the above by nationality can be found in the Library (supplied in Annex A, B, C and D of background note).

Immigration: Law

Julian Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate her Department has made of the cost to businesses of familiarisation with provisions of immigration law. [18930]

Damian Green: No estimate has been made of the general costs faced by the private sector in familiarising itself with immigration law. However, whenever there is a significant change in immigration law, the costs of familiarisation associated with that change are estimated. For example, the impact assessment for the introduction of interim limits on migration (IA No: HO0007 published on 28 June 2010) presented an estimate of £60,000 for a one-off cost to the private sector. This estimate was based on the costs of time taken by regulated private sector advisers to familiarise themselves with the changes.

Immigration: Overseas Students

Simon Kirby: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects the review of the points-based immigration system as it relates to overseas students to be completed; and if she will make a statement. [19088]

Damian Green: The Government are reviewing all migration routes to the UK and expect to announce any changes to the system in due course.

Internet

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she is taking to implement her Department's proposals to end the storage of internet and email records without good reason. [18268]

Nick Herbert [holding answer 19 October 2010]: As part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, the Government have confirmed that preserving the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data in accordance with law is vital to the work these agencies do to protect the public. The reasons they may require the disclosure of such data, subject to strict safeguards, include safeguarding national security and for purposes including preventing and detecting crime and, in an emergency, preventing death and injury. Communications data transaction records are generated, processed and retained by communications service providers in the course of their business. By notice under regulations, service providers may be required to retain securely specific data for 12 months where those data are not otherwise retained. The Government will not require any unnecessary or disproportionate retention of data under the regulations and will ensure that our response to changing technology is compatible with the Government's approach to information storage and civil liberties.


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Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Rehman Chishti: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will bring forward proposals to create a right of appeal in respect of the rulings of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. [18021]

Nick Herbert: The Government consider that the tribunal acts as a quasi court of appeal in respect of the remit set out for it in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and therefore is not considering proposals to create a right of appeal in respect of its rulings.

For example, the tribunal has wide jurisdiction to consider complaints regarding the use of interception powers and as regards the interception of communications to investigate whether the persons against whom a complainant makes allegations have intercepted communications of the complainant and to investigate the authority for any interceptions that are found to have occurred. A claim may be based on an allegation that a convention right has been violated or on other public law grounds.

Further, a claim can be brought against any of the intelligence services in relation to their use or handling of any intercepted material, whether by reference to the convention or on other public law grounds. The tribunal has extensive powers to require the disclosure or provision of documents and information.

Rehman Chishti: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will bring forward proposals to establish further accountability mechanisms in respect of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. [18022]

Nick Herbert: The Government consider that the tribunal itself provides an oversight role in respect of the use of certain powers defined in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 by the intelligence services; and therefore there is no need to establish further accountability mechanisms for it.

In support of these powers, members of the tribunal must either hold or have held high judicial office, or be a qualified lawyer of at least 10 years' standing. The president of the tribunal must hold or have held high judicial office. The tribunal has extensive powers to require the disclosure or provision of documents and information. Further, when investigating or considering any claim, the tribunal may require the Interception of Communications Commissioner to provide "all such assistance" as it thinks fit. And finally, the tribunal has power to award compensation and to make such other orders as it thinks fit including orders quashing or cancelling any warrant and orders requiring the destruction of any records of information which has been obtained in exercise of any power conferred by a warrant. If a claim is successful, the tribunal is required to make a report of its findings to the Prime Minister.

Khat

Ms Gisela Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 13 October 2010, Official Report, column 304W, on khat, whether her Department has undertaken a breakdown of the use of khat by ethnic origin of users. [18550]


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James Brokenshire: The preliminary findings on the level of khat use from the British Crime Survey are based on only six months data and as such it is not possible to provide a robust breakdown of estimates of khat use by ethnic origin.

Passports: Islamabad

Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports are being held at the embassy in (a) Islamabad and (b) Abu Dhabi pending return to visa applicants. [17729]

Damian Green [holding answer 18 October 2010]: I am pleased to report that the Pakistan visa operation has performed well throughout this summer, with the
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majority of applications being processed within UK Border Agency customer service standards.

The UK Border Agency aims to process 90% of non-settlement applications within 15 working days, 98% within six weeks and 100% within 12 weeks. For settlement applications, the target is to process 95% within 12 weeks and 100% within 24 weeks. Actual processing times for applications resolved during August that were lodged, for example, at the visa application centre in Islamabad, are shown in the following table. The most popular types of visa application are included in the table. Details of processing times for other categories of application, and for processing times for applications lodged at the other visa application centres in Pakistan, can be found on the following website:

Percentage
Processing time
weeks
Application type 15 (days) 6 12 24

Family visit

80

91

98

99

PBS Tier 4

90

94

97

99

Settlement

67

78

92

98


As of 14 October, the Islamabad operation has 715 live applications for non-settlement UK visas pending decision and 3,236 in respect of settlement applications, while the Abu Dhabi operation has 1,958 live applications for UK visas pending decision. The figure for Abu Dhabi includes 393 passports held pending the processing of applications from the Gulf.

This information is based on management information. It is provisional and subject to change.

Police: Arrests

Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrests have been made under section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (a) nationally and (b) by each police force since April 2010. [19473]

Nick Herbert: The information requested on arrests is not collected centrally.

The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery. The data reported to the Home Office cannot be broken down into specific offences.

Information on arrests in 2010-11 is planned for publication in March 2011.

Police: Bassetlaw

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were in Bassetlaw (a) on the latest date for which figures are available and (b) in 2007. [19106]

Nick Herbert: Police personnel statistics are not collected by the Home Office by parliamentary constituency. The Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood (B) Division had 292 police officers on 31 March 2010 and 267 police officers on 31 March 2007.

Police: Compensation

Mark Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much compensation has been paid to people whose properties were wrongly forcibly entered by the police in each of the last three years (a) nationally and (b) in Milton Keynes. [19119]

Nick Herbert: Chief police officers are responsible for the exercise of policing powers by their officers and for the management of the budgets for their individual forces. The information on compensation payments is not collected centrally.

Police: Dorset

Conor Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding per head of population was allocated to Dorset Police Authority for the financial year (a) 2010-11 and (b) 1996-97. [19071]

Nick Herbert: The information available is set out in the following table.

The Government do not distribute grant to police authorities on a per capita basis. The police funding formula used includes data relating to demographic and social characteristics to reflect the relative needs of each police authority area. Police grants allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Welsh Assembly Government also take into account the relative tax base of each police authority. Grant allocations in 2010-11 were damped to limit year-on-year variations.


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Dorset police authority total grant funding 1996-97 and 2010-11
Police authority Total grant funding 1996-97( 1) (£ million) Resident population 1996-97( 2) Total grant funding 2010-11( 3) (£ million) Resident population 2010( 4)

Dorset

54.7

672,987

75.7

712,842

(1) Total grant funding comprises: general grant (Home Office police grant and Communities and Local Government revenue support grant and national non-domestic rates) and capital provision.
(2) The mid 1996 population estimates are based on the 1991 census. ONS have published a back series for the same period, aligned to the 2001 census.
(3 )Total grant funding comprises; general grant (Home Office police grant and Communities and Local Government revenue support grant and national non-domestic rates) and specific grants include crime fighting fund, neighbourhood policing fund/community support officers, basic command unit fund and rule 2 grant, Welsh top-up and capital provision.
(4 )The population figures used in the 2010 settlement were 2004-based sub-national projections.
Note:
Under the terms of the neighbourhood policing fund, forces that do not employ the agreed number of PCSOs will have some money deducted from their budget the following year.
Sources:
Grant figures-Home Office
Population data-ONS

Police: Equipment

Mr Buckland: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will take steps to increase the use of body-worn video and camera equipment by police officers. [19035]

Nick Herbert: Body-worn video and camera equipment is one of a number of tools that can make a contribution to fighting crime and antisocial behaviour. However, decisions on the deployment and use of such equipment are operational matters for chief officers based on their assessment of the policing requirements of their respective forces.

Police: Finance

Conor Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding was allocated to each police authority area for the financial year (a) 2010-11 and (b) 1996-97. [19070]

Nick Herbert: The information requested is set out in the following table:


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Police authority total grant funding, 1996-97 and 2010-11
£ million
Force 1996-97( 1) 2010-11( 2, 3, 4)

Avon and Somerset

135.7

207.3

Bedfordshire

51.0

81.8

Cambridgeshire

57.1

93.9

Cheshire

85.0

137.2

City of London

28.5

109.6

Cleveland

67.6

108.0

Cumbria

51.0

76.9

Derbyshire

81.1

128.8

Devon and Cornwall

132.0

214.2

Dorset

54.7

75.7

Durham

65.2

102.8

Dyfed-Powys

41.6

64.1

Essex

133.9

204.7

Gloucestershire

51.7

69.6

Greater Manchester

315.6

521.9

Gwent

55.8

92.7

Hampshire

152.0

236.7

Hertfordshire

76.8

138.7

Humberside

94.9

145.4

Kent

145.5

223.3

Lancashire

146.7

231.5

Leicestershire

85.4

134.8

Lincolnshire

52.7

75.8

Merseyside

208.9

302.1

Metropolitan

1,563.1

2,292.9

Norfolk

66.7

102.1

North Wales

61.6

93.1

North Yorkshire

61.1

88.6

Northamptonshire

51.2

86.6

Northumbria

178.2

279.3

Nottinghamshire

107.5

160.6

South Wales

138.7

203.6

South Yorkshire

144.3

227.9

Staffordshire

97.6

137.4

Suffolk

52.8

82.2

Surrey

77.9

118.2

Sussex

131.6

195.7

Thames Valley

174.6

276.9

Warwickshire

42.4

63.0

West Mercia

89.3

141.7

West Midlands

317.7

552.0

West Yorkshire

239.5

384.8

Wiltshire

52.3

/b.3

Total England and Wales

6,018.5

9,339.3

(1) Total grant funding comprises: General Grant (Home Office Police Grant and Communities and Local Government Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates) and Capital Provision. (2) Total grant funding comprises: General Grant (Home Office Police Grant and Communities and Local Government Revenue Support Grant and National Non-Domestic Rates) and Specific Grants include-Crime Fighting Fund, Neighbourhood Policing Fund/Community Support Officers, Basic Command Unit Fund and Rule 2 Grant, Welsh Top-up and Capital Provision. Please note: Under the terms of the Neighbourhood Policing Fund, forces that do not employ the agreed number of PCSOs will have some money deducted from their budget the following year. (3) Total grant funding excludes the following for comparison purposes: Dedicated Security Grant, Counter Terrorism Funding, Pensions Top-up Grant and some minor grant flows. (4) Total grant funding figures taken after the in-year reductions to Core Government funding of £125 million finalised in July.

Police: Pay

Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments to the (a) current and (b) previous chief constable of Essex police (i) have been made during each of the last three years and (ii) are planned for each of the next two years. [15709]

Nick Herbert: Chief officers' pay and benefits are negotiated nationally through the Police Negotiating Board and provisions for these are contained in the 2003 Police Regulations and Determinations. It is for the police authority to determine payments other than salary to the chief constable, in accordance with legislative requirements. Information about these payments is held by police authorities and is not held centrally by the Home Office.

The salary for the chief constable of Essex police for each of the last three years is shown in the following table.

The Government's policy is to freeze the pay of public sector workers earning over £21,000 for two years. We would expect this to apply to police officers, but future decisions on officers' pay will take account of
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the review of remuneration and conditions of service and any recommendations from the Police Negotiating Board.

The salary for the chief constable of Essex police for each of the last three years is shown in the following table:

Chief constable salary

£

From 1 December 2007

137,211

From 1 September 2008

140,847

From 1 September 2009

144,510

From 1 September 2010

148,194


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Police: Sick Leave

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many days each police force lost to sickness absence (a) in total and (b) per officer in each of the last three years. [18814]

Nick Herbert: The available data are provided in the following tables which show the total contracted hours lost to sickness by police force, 2007-08 to 2009-10. Figures are provided as 'hours lost' rather than 'days lost', as days lost to sickness are not collected centrally. This provides more accurate figures as it allows for the effect of different shift lengths.

Total contracted hours lost to sickness, by police force, 2007-08 to 2009-10( 1, 2)
2007-08
Police staff( 3) Police officers

H ours lost Hours lost Number of officers Hours lost per officer

Avon and Somerset

279,280

283,296

3,407

83

Bedfordshire

69,073

111,583

1,207

92

Cambridgeshire

84,087

113,233

1,379

82

Cheshire

118,479

129,479

2,181

59

Cleveland

68,978

107,024

1,692

63

Cumbria

63,142

90,912

1,246

73

Derbyshire

89,851

152,707

2,095

73

Devon and Cornwall

216,410

267,228

3,529

76

Dorset

85,050

109,082

1,518

72

Durham

65,630

118,117

1,632

72

Dyfed-Powys

65,963

94,055

1,194

79

Essex

212,218

244,024

3,385

72

Gloucestershire

75,407

115,511

1,353

85

Greater Manchester

327,095

603,624

8,034

75

Gwent

81,245

139,511

1,487

94

Hampshire

189,525

250,608

3,912

64

Hertfordshire

138,882

173,323

2,162

80

Humberside

97,242

112,863

2,243

50

Kent

191,132

248,472

3,718

67

Lancashire

150,713

248,684

3,675

68

Leicestershire

113,278

152,801

2,241

68

Lincolnshire

67,255

98,677

1,201

82

London, City of

22,521

43,334

830

52

Merseyside

210,672

295,674

4,477

66

Metropolitan Police

1,266,688

1,757,619

31,460

56

Norfolk

83,018

120,546

1,578

76

Northamptonshire

76,567

79,856

1,309

61

Northumbria

149,370

309,263

3,983

78

North Wales

55,789

99,459

1,579

63

North Yorkshire

104,083

133,364

1,581

84

Nottinghamshire

159,620

186,740

2,369

79

South Wales

141,232

306,786

3,244

95

South Yorkshire

200,673

240,930

3,201

75

Staffordshire

126,934

193,350

2,269

85

Suffolk

70,791

99,844

1,319

76

Surrey

117,200

133,628

1,944

69

Sussex

201,575

236,489

3,075

77

Thames Valley

221,754

293,268

4,186

70

Warwickshire

74,868

92,691

1,036

90

West Mercia

140,973

184,595

2,486

74

West Midlands

324,456

587,302

8,412

70

West Yorkshire

275,824

389,012

5,822

67

Wiltshire

98,281

115,805

1,210

96

Total

6,972,820

9,864,366

141,859

70


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2008-09
Police staff( 3) Police officers

H ours lost Hours lost Number of officers Hours lost per officer

Avon and Somerset

260,928

317,150

3,355

95

Bedfordshire

70,132

90,826

1,244

73

Cambridgeshire

88,268

116,197

1,450

80

Cheshire

111,190

113,254

2,180

52

Cleveland

68,212

101,653

1,756

58

Cumbria

78,621

83,958

1,284

65

Derbyshire

82,072

134,960

2,137

63

Devon and Cornwall

199,253

257,557

3,556

72

Dorset

91,909

107,349

1,512

71

Durham

66,271

109,677

1,588

69

Dyfed-Powys

37,784

57,403

1,197

48

Essex

213,384

246,184

3,484

71

Gloucestershire

73,215

103,205

1,372

75

Greater Manchester

353,729

524,989

8,232

64

Gwent

83,161

147,317

1,438

102

Hampshire

196,680

242,568

3,811

64

Hertfordshire

151,945

176,399

2,172

81

Humberside

110,427

110,997

2,110

53

Kent

192,391

243,886

3,799

64

Lancashire

155,294

188,447

3,753

50

Leicestershire

98,886

117,227

2,363

50

Lincolnshire

77,665

95,704

1,229

78

London, City of

23,909

36,197

813

44

Merseyside

197,316

301,056

4,494

67

Metropolitan Police

1,208,950

1,727,755

32,610

53

Norfolk

95,796

123,653

1,668

74

Northamptonshire

74,065

62,458

1,326

47

Northumbria

147,453

268,203

4,111

65

North Wales

63,209

106,006

1,586

67

North Yorkshire

95,973

123,104

1,460

84

Nottinghamshire

155,372

174,299

2,408

72

South Wales

134,192

293,434

3,146

93

South Yorkshire

213,912

221,364

3,053

73

Staffordshire

131,584

189,389

2,211

86

Suffolk(3)

-

-

1,291

-

Surrey

134,050

122,932

1,872

66

Sussex

217,044

229,711

3,196

72

Thames Valley

220,804

266,064

4,317

62

Warwickshire

63,226

100,394

994

101

West Mercia

160,629

168,618

2,471

68

West Midlands

266,137

464,709

8,637

54

West Yorkshire

289,576

403,193

5,854

69

Wiltshire

93,387

108,914

1,229

89

Total

6,848,000

9,178,361

143,770

64



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2009-10
Police staff( 3) Police officers

H ours lost Hours lost Number of officers Hours lost per officer

Avon and Somerset

218,924

240,253

3,302

73

Bedfordshire

83,451

88,117

1,246

71

Cambridgeshire

90,802

95,316

1,471

65

Cheshire

95,697

98,397

2,155

46

Cleveland

58,594

87,062

1,724

50

Cumbria

72,937

90,131

1,238

73

Derbyshire

92,577

132,494

2,074

64

Devon and Cornwall

211,290

261,306

3,556

73

Dorset

99,891

95,693

1,486

64

Durham

77,506

103,425

1,507

69

Dyfed-Powys

49,831

82,126

1,195

69

Essex

232,834

234,760

3,606

65

Gloucestershire

67,675

100,609

1,309

77

Greater Manchester

360,672

547,773

8,148

67

Gwent

79,173

106,905

1,437

74

Hampshire

96,555

120,712

3,748

32

Hertfordshire

136,114

137,857

2,130

65

Humberside

90,131

93,859

2,058

46

Kent

199,509

221,283

3,787

58

Lancashire

161,842

223,784

3,649

61

Leicestershire

92,714

106,436

2,317

46

Lincolnshire

79,475

119,403

1,206

99

London, City of

22,699

42,640

852

50

Merseyside

209,892

304,163

4,516

67

Metropolitan Police

1,240,001

1,767,339

33,367

53

Norfolk

87,164

102,755

1,662

62

Northamptonshire

87,421

74,093

1,343

55

Northumbria

162,765

249,849

4,187

60

North Wales

66,913

109,296

1,590

69

North Yorkshire

89,196

95,986

1,486

65

Nottinghamshire

138,200

160,437

2,409

67

South Wales

155,178

269,962

3,148

86

South Yorkshire

196,337

170,991

2,953

58

Staffordshire

136,221

176,142

2,161

82

Suffolk

39,344

58,899

1,246

47

Surrey

145,888

124,528

1,890

66

Sussex

207,022

206,261

3,213

64

Thames Valley

251,601

295,599

4,434

67

Warwickshire

67,674

94,909

973

98

West Mercia

144,268

173,596

2,391

73

West Midlands

252,498

495,483

8,626

57

West Yorkshire

249,995

351,388

5,758

61

Wiltshire

69,924

64,476

1,181

55

Total

6,768,392

8,776,492

143,734

61

(1) Figures are provisional and have not been verified by forces.
(2) Figures on sickness absence are collected as hours lost. Figures on days lost are not collected centrally.
(3) Figures for staff include police staff, police community support officers, designated officers and traffic wardens. They do not include police officers.

Police: Working Hours

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much each police force spent on overtime (a) in total and (b) on average per officer in each of the last three years. [18866]

Nick Herbert: Information about police service expenditure, including overtime, is available on the website of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants

Two tables follow: Table 1 shows the past spend on overtime by force (split by officer and staff overtime); Table 2 calculates overtime spend by officer, based on data from Table 1 and police officer strength recorded in Home Office Annual Data Returns.


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Table 1: S pend on overtime by force (split by officer and staff overtime)
£ million
Spend on officer overtime Spend on police staff and PCSO overtime Total spend on overtime
Force 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Avon and Somerset

6.996

6.535

6.239

1.216

1.403

1.348

8.212

7.938

7.587

Bedfordshire

3.993

3.962

4.079

0.401

0.447

0.485

4.394

4.409

4.564

Cambridgeshire

4.238

4.584

3.37

0.32

0.481

0.406

4.558

5.065

3.776

Cheshire

6.925

4.425

4.554

1.677

2.08

1.415

8.602

6.505

5.969

Cleveland

4.369

3.81313

3.306

0.352

0.33

0.339

4.721

4.15

3.645

Cumbria

2.444

1.712

1.359

0.741

0.748

0.385

3.185

2.46

1.744

Derbyshire

4.854

4.256

3.533

0.791

0.761

0.47

5.645

5.017

4.003

Devon and Cornwall

6.548

6.467

5.12

1.113

1.295

1.183

7.661

7.762

6.303

Dorset

3.243

3.181

2.608

0.555

0.533

0.466

3.798

3.714

3.074

Durham

3.596

2.702

2.678

0.282

0.348

0.34

3.878

3.05

3.018

Dyfed-Powys

2.566

2.329

2.339

0.269

0.29

0.307

2.835

2.619

2.646

Essex

11.732

9.623

7.714

1.561

1.47

1.157

13.293

11.093

8.871

Gloucestershire

3.353

2.662

3.519

0.378

0.327

0.295

3.731

2.989

3.814

Greater Manchester

23.322

23.319

20.875

3.255

3.534

2.766

26.577

26.853

23.641

Gwent

4.134

3.548

3.299

1.265

1.277

1.203

5.399

4.825

4.502

Hampshire

11.48

8.871

8.091

2.012

1.575

1.187

13.492

10.446

9.278

Hertfordshire

7.272

7.196

5.663

1.107

1.124

1.166

8.379

8.32

6.829

Humberside

6.874

5.402

5.598

1.295

1.184

1.129

8.169

6.586

6.727

Kent

(1)-

10.084

7.055

0.564

2.286

1.597

(1)-

12.37

8.652

Lancashire

8.918

7.801

7.004

1.072

1.121

1.052

9.99

8.922

8.056

Leicestershire

5.476

5.169

4.527

0.583

0.602

0.381

6.059

5.771

4.908

Lincolnshire

3.708

2.68

2.49

0.418

0.368

0.373

4.126

3.048

2.863

London, City of

2.731

2.141

2.342

0.283

0.223

0.211

3.014

2.364

2.553

Merseyside

11.071

10.8465

10.853

1.876

1.84

2.203

12.947

12.69

13.056

Metropolitan Police

144.957

137.876

(1)-

18.67

17.396

(1)-

163.62

155.27

(1)-

Norfolk

4.201

3.298

3.034

0.54

0.54

0.468

4.741

3.838

3.502

Northamptonshire

3.478

2.829

(1)-

1.005

1.083

(1)-

4.483

3.912

(1)-

Northumbria

7.878

7.424

(1)-

0.017

1.178

(1)-

7.895

8.602

(1)-

North Wales

3.626

2.738

3.056

0.489

0.504

0.583

4.115

3.242

3.639

North Yorkshire

2.996

2.477

3.992

0.744

0.669

0.845

3.74

3.146

4.837

Nottinghamshire

(1)-

5.469

6.057

(1)-

0.848

0.727

(1)-

6.317

6.784

South Wales

(1)-

6.449

6.18

(1)-

0.771

0.58

(1)-

7.22

6.76

South Yorkshire

10.167

8.329

9.209

0.456

2.09

2.076

10.623

10.419

11.285

Staffordshire

5.104

4.969

5.277

0.621

0.582

0.603

5.725

5.551

5.88

Suffolk

3.543

2.856

2.1

0.38

0.454

0.414

3.923

3.31

2.514

Surrey

5.93

4.643

0.088

1.841

1.962

0.701

7.771

6.605

0.789

Sussex

5.946

6.598

6.684

0.629

0.92

0.912

6.575

7.518

7.596

Thames Valley

13.762

(1)-

10.767

2.35

(1)-

2.187

16.112

(1)-

12.954

Warwickshire

3.753

3.33

2.341

0.702

0.434

0.435

4.455

3.764

2.776

West Mercia

5.56

5.77

4.864

0.641

0.742

0.576

6.201

6.512

5.44

West Midlands

24.152

21.301

17.95

2.27

2.16

1.9774

26.422

23.461

19.92

West Yorkshire

18.128

13.79

12.496

6.889

7.395

2.708

25.017

21.185

15.204

Wiltshire

(1)-

3.18

(1)-

(1)-

0.568

(1)-

(1)-

3.748

(1)-

(1) Data unavailable
Source:
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy


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Table 2: Overtime spend per officer
Officer strength FTE at March 31 of financial year Spend per officer (£)
Force 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Avon and Somerset

3,407

3,355

3,302

2,054

1,948

1,890

Bedfordshire

1,207

1,246

1,246

3,309

3,180

3,274

Cambridgeshire

1,380

1,450

1,471

3,072

3,162

2,290

Cheshire

2,181

2,180

2,142

3,175

2,030

2,126

Cleveland

1,692

1,756

1,724

2,582

2,171

1,917

Cumbria

1,246

1,284

1,238

1,961

1,333

1,098

Derbyshire

2,095

2,137

2,074

2,317

1,992

1,703

Devon and Cornwall

3,529

3,556

3,561

1,855

1,819

1,438

Dorset

1,518

1,512

1,486

2,137

2,104

1,754

Durham

1,632

1,589

1,507

2,203

1,701

1,777

Dyfed-Powys

1,194

1,197

1,195

2,149

1,945

1,958

Essex

3,385

3,484

3,606

3,466

2,762

2,139

Gloucestershire

1,353

1,371

1,309

2,478

1,942

2,689

Greater Manchester

8,034

8,232

8,148

2,903

2,833

2,562

Gwent

1,487

1,438

1,437

2,781

2,467

2,296

Hampshire

3,912

3,811

3,748

2,934

2,328

2,159

Hertfordshire

2,162

2,172

2,130

3,364

3,313

2,659

Humberside

2,243

2,110

2,058

3,064

2,560

2,721

Kent

3,718

3,799

3,834

(1)-

2,655

1,840

Lancashire

3,675

3,753

3,649

2,427

2,079

1,919

Leicestershire

2,241

2,363

2,317

2,443

2,187

1,954

Lincolnshire

1,201

1,229

1,206

3,086

2,180

2,064

London, City of

830

813

852

3,288

2,632

2,748

Merseyside

4,477

4,494

4,516

2,473

2,414

2,403

Metropolitan Police

31,460

32,610

33,367

4,608

4,228

(1)-

Norfolk

1,575

1,668

1,665

2,668

1,977

1,822

Northamptonshire

1,309

1,326

1,343

2,657

2,133

(1)-

Northumbria

3,983

4,111

4,187

1,978

1,806

(1)-

North Wales

1,579

1,586

1,590

2,297

1,726

1,922

North Yorkshire

1,581

1,460

1,486

1,895

1,697

2,687

Nottinghamshire

2,369

2,408

2,409

(1)-

2,271

2,514

South Wales

3,244

3,146

3,148

(1)-

2,050

1,963

South Yorkshire

3,201

3,053

2,953

3,176

2,728

3,119

Staffordshire

2,269

2,211

2,161

2,249

2,248

2,442

Suffolk

1,319

1,291

1,246

2,687

2,212

1,686

Surrey

1,944

1,872

1,890

3,051

2,480

47

Sussex

3,075

3,196

3,213

1,934

2,065

2,080

Thames Valley

4,186

4,317

4,434

3,288

(1)-

2,428

Warwickshire

1,036

994

973

3,624

3,352

2,406

West Mercia

2,486

2,471

2,391

2,236

2,335

2,034

West Midlands

8,412

8,637

8,626

2,871

2,466

2,081

West Yorkshire

5,822

5,854

5,759

3,114

2,356

2,170

Wiltshire

1,210

1,250

1,181

(1)-

2,544

(1)-

(1) Data unavailable
Note:
It should be noted that some officers will claim no overtime during a year, but the Home Office does hold information on the number of these officers.
Source:
Home Office Annual Data Returns

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