Written Statements
Monday 4 February 2013
Climate Change
Statement
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma): My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Climate Change (Greg Barker) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I am announcing today that the Department of Energy and Climate Change has commenced the first triennial review of the Committee on Climate Change. Triennial reviews of non-departmental public bodies are part of the Government's commitment to ensuring accountability in public life. I will announce the findings of the review later this year.
Northern Ireland: Security
Statement
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office (Baroness Randerson): My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Theresa Villiers) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
The Government have received and welcomed the annual report from Lord Carlile of Berriew on the operation of arrangements for handling national security matters in Northern Ireland for the period 22 November 2011 to 11 December 2012.
Lord Carlile is briefed by both the PSNI and the Security Service for the purpose of his reports; he states that he is satisfied that the briefings he has received have been full and not selective. He states that the Security Service and the Police Service of Northern Ireland work well together and clearly in the national interest.
Lord Carlile reports that the level of terrorist activity appears broadly similar to that of the previous year; it remains a challenging and variable environment for the PSNI and Security Service. He notes the very serious incidents which took place in 2012, including the murder of David Black on 1 November and states that the overall picture is of a very dangerous, unpredictable terrorist threat.
I welcome the content of this report and have made it available to the Home Secretary. Given its sensitive nature, I do not however intend to place copies in the Library.
Police: Grants
Statement
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Taylor of Holbeach): My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice (Damian Green) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2013-14 (HC 876). The report sets out my right honourable friend the Home Secretary’s determination for 2013-14 of the aggregate amount of grant that she proposes to pay under Section 46(2) of the Police Act 1996, and the amount to be paid to the Greater London Authority for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.
This Statement also includes details of other funding streams that the Home Office, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Welsh Government intend to provide to the police in 2013-14.
The Police Grant Settlement 2013-14
| Table 1: Police revenue funding - figures for 2013-14 | |
| 2013-14 | |
| £m | |
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of which National, International and Capital City Grant (MOPAC only) | |
Includes a small amount of contingency funding which is not shown in the table.
**This is the difference in total central Government funding to the police compared to 2012-13 which included additional funding relating to the PCC elections. The reduction in core Government funding (ie funding that is damped) is 1.6%.
| Table 2: Division of police capital between funding streams | ||
| 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
| £m | £m | |
| Table 3: Revenue allocations for England and Wales 2013-14 | |||||
| Local Policing Body | 2013-14 | ||||
| HO Core | CSF | Welsh Top-up | WG | DCLG* | |
| £m | |||||
Does not include the £75m for the 11-12 council tax freeze grant.
The police will also separately receive council tax support funding from DCLG. Allocations for 2013-14 have been published on the DCLG website.
| Table 4: Capital grant allocations for England and Wales for 2013-14 (actual) and 2014-15 (indicative) | ||
| Local Policing Body | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| £m | £m | |