Correspondence from the Committee to the
Permanent Secretary, Home Office
Following the letter dated 24 November to you from
Mr Keith Vaz, Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the Committee
has requested me to pass on some additional requests for information,
as follows:
- Your Department's budget for programmes is to
fall by £2 billion or 23% in real terms between 2010-11 and
2014-15. How much of this decrease will fall to the police and
how much to the UKBA?
- Currently, the Department for Communities and
Local Government and the Welsh Assembly Government between them
provide 29% of police funding. Do you expect them to provide a
similar percentage in future? Have you discussed with them what
reductions they may be making in their contributions?
- Given that the Home Office has overall responsibility
for policing, what contingency plans does the Home Office have
in the event that neither the other government departments nor
the police authorities provide as much funding as the Home Secretary
would wish?
- It seems likely that there will be an increase
in work for the Home Office in the next few years, as that the
terrorist threat remains severe, the Olympics are imminent, and
given several pieces of forthcoming legislation, the major reviews
into counter-terrorism and extradition, and government initiatives
to publish more information about crime and policing. How has
this been taken into account in your forward planning for the
Department when you will have fewer staff and less money?
The Committee has also asked me to forward to you
the note produced by the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, which
was referred to by Mr Michael in Q87 when he asked for similar
information to be provided on capital expenditure. This may be
of use to you in compiling that information.
The Committee would be very grateful if you could
reply to both this letter and the Chair's letter by 5pm on Friday
3 December, as the information is required for proceedings in
the House on 8 December.
November 2010
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