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Police: National Black Police Association
Question
Asked by Lord Monson
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether membership of the National Black Police Association is open to all police officers, irrespective of ethnic background. [HL6100]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): The National Black Police Association website confirms that the NBPA is open to all in policing on application and there is no bar to membership based on colour.
Police: Pensions
Question
Asked by Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Home Office paid to each police authority, in each of the past five years for which information is available, to meet their annual pension costs (a) in cash terms, and (b) as a percentage of total payments made to each authority in the same year. [HL6002]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): Police officers' pensions are governed by the Police Pension Scheme Regulations of 1987 and 2006. The present system of financing police pensions was introduced in April 2006. Each police authority pays employer and officers' pension contributions into a separate account, out of which pensions of retired officers are paid. Where the income into the police authority pensions account from contributions and other payments (such as inward transfer values) is insufficient to meet the cost of pensions in payment, it is topped up by Home Office grant on an annual basis.
The Home Office top-up grant to police authorities for police pensions is provided from annually managed expenditure; other payments come out of departmental expenditure limits. Information relating to the financing of police pensions before 2006-07 is not included here. That is the responsibility of individual police authorities
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and is included in the annual reports published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), collected independently of the Home Office.
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The information for 2006-07 to 2008-09 is given in the table below. "Total Payments" include the net general grant as well as specific grants.
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
Home Office Top up grant for Pensions
Total Payments*
Top up Pensions as a % of total payments
Home Office Top up grant for Pensions
Total Payments*
Top up Pensions as a % of total payments
Home Office Top up grant for Pensions
Total Payments'
Top up Pensions as a % of total payments
Avon and Somerset
7,670,400
129,195,325
6%
11,592,000
138,011,585
8%
11,915,274
141,835,492
8%
Bedfordshire
1,661,600
49,225,254
3%
1,081,800
50,858,043
2%
2,848,652
54,287,637
5%
Cambridgeshire
3,376,347
58,519,861
6%
31,053
57,437,797
0%
7,759,423
66,618,737
12%
Cheshire
3,271,200
80,184,511
4%
4,878,600
84,478,623
6%
8,225,836
88,299,992
9%
City of London
4,870,400
42,832,177
11%
3,463,200
42,557,107
8%
7,963,961
45,003,780
18%
Cleveland
2,799,200
59,025,628
5%
3,993,200
60,706,966
7%
5,597,237
63,581,621
9%
Cumbria
2,243,200
39,782,621
6%
4,007,600
43,264,712
9%
7,207,777
47,316,460
15%
Derbyshire
2,148,800
76,014,413
3%
6,740,000
82,917,195
8%
7,894,491
85,676,458
9%
Devon and Cornwall
3,092,000
126,867,269
2%
7,814,200
137,475,113
6%
13,085,436
144,759,326
9%
Dorset
5,143,200
53,383,389
10%
7,386,200
58,108,507
13%
6,396,378
57,563,717
11%
Durham
3,252,000
56,066,167
6%
4,052,400
59,929,126
7%
6,205,963
61,500,800
10%
Dyfed-Powys
2,649,600
43,596,156
6%
239,600
41,710,078
1%
6,480,459
47,843,615
14%
Essex
5,450,400
129,072,409
4%
6,645,600
134,785,878
5%
10,412,327
143,650,893
7%
Gloucestershire
3,025,864
48,253,295
6%
4,307,156
51,351,458
8%
5,960,734
53,398,887
11%
Greater Manchester
9,643,200
283,871,056
3%
17,758,600
301,674,260
6%
29,978,417
321,891,598
9%
Gwent
1,588,512
52,944,598
3%
0
53,101,482
0%
4,485,773
58,632,260
8%
Hampshire
7,307,200
146,500,226
5%
8,547,400
153,421,556
6%
19,996,012
168,170,084
12%
Hertfordshire
0
83,099,896
0%
755,200
87,373,349
1%
247,134
89,142,106
0%
Humberside
3,020,000
79,319,778
4%
8,021,400
86,837,653
9%
7,498,618
89,838,629
8%
Kent
3,483,200
145,725,083
2%
11,546,800
159,472,517
7%
7,117,384
159,812,394
4%
Lancashire
9,053,600
135,098,093
7%
12,825,200
142,678,546
9%
13,384,664
147,492,713
9%
Leicestershire
1,197,600
78,166,470
2%
2,346,000
81,305,567
3%
7,371,837
88,174,637
8%
Lincolnshire
6,594,400
51,875,051
13%
10,320,951
57,418,699
18%
9,410,971
58,132,272
16%
Merseyside
16,606,400
175,716,478
9%
24,624,600
188,030,942
13%
27,155,341
195,130,488
14%
Metropolitan Police
13,116,800
1,525,301,687
1%
43,029,200
1,638,051,891
3%
47,658,961
1,682,306,879
3%
Norfolk
4,148,800
65,425,073
6%
6,295,800
70,698,652
9%
8,723,094
74,029,314
12%
North Wales
1,872,800
58,520,746
3%
5,119,600
63,520,687
8%
7,014,761
65,339,165
11%
North Yorkshire
4,296,000
55,315,226
8%
4,886,200
57,741,623
8%
9,817,276
64,126,877
15%
Northamptonshire
1,148,000
49,832,555
2%
2,019,000
52,721,813
4%
4,486,613
56,836,293
8%
Northumbria
8,504,000
139,429,551
6%
10,534,000
145,849,208
7%
20,981,030
157,864,488
13%
Nottinghamshire
3,332,800
88,870,805
4%
9,034,000
98,615,714
9%
11,043,443
104,027,860
11%
South Wales
8,952,800
120,164,766
7%
17,646,800
133,235,014
13%
14,618,489
132,897,043
11%
South Yorkshire
3,060,000
118,044,174
3%
8,653,400
129,749,569
7%
10,587,580
134,569,372
8%
Staffordshire
4,860,800
82,445,051
6%
6,973,800
87,190,971
8%
11,664,788
94,321,706
12%
Suffolk
2,782,400
50,828,801
5%
4,040,800
54,288,607
7%
4,282,824
55,873,031
8%
Surrey
2,207,200
77,993,429
3%
1,083,000
80,071,487
1%
9,742,709
90,593,694
11%
Sussex
6,086,400
123,892,450
5%
10,833,600
133,043,007
8%
16,074,403
140,989,626
11%
Thames Valley
1,716,779
176,624,208
1%
1,100,367
181,164,385
1%
7,235,379
189,824,515
4%
Warwickshire
2,956,000
40,827,249
7%
3,788,400
43,574,349
9%
3,808,717
44,100,085
9%
West Mercia
3,104,000
83,230,795
4%
1,440,584
85,012,659
2%
11,180,425
96,549,242
12%
West Midlands
5,348,800
298,748,312
2%
14,943,400
318,671,629
5%
14,901,496
327,187,994
5%
West Yorkshire
11,413,600
214,903,088
5%
22,794,800
233,347,527
10%
27,443,059
245,865,831
11%
Wiltshire
3,082,400
48,631,361
6%
2,831,600
50,043,098
6%
5,997,205
54,217,530
11%
Total payments in this case includes all payments from the Home Office to police forces. This includes: the Net General Grant from the Home Office as well as all specific grants paid by the Home Office. It does not include payments made by CLG, redistributed business rates or council tax precepts. The specific grants are as follows: the Crime Fighting Fund, the Basic Command Unit Fund, Community Support Officer/Neighbourhood Policing Fund, the Pensions Deficit Grant, the Counter Terrorism Fund, Rule 2 Grants, Capital Grants, Grants for dedicated security posts and the Metropolitan Police Service Specific Grant.
