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Written question asked by Lord Harper (Conservative) on Wednesday, 3 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 8 December 2008. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 16 December 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Police: Gloucestershire

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) security grant, (b) crime fighting fund grant, (c) police community support officer grant, (d) basic crime unit grant and (e) probationer training grant will be for Gloucestershire in 2009-10.
Answer

The Government announced a three year police funding settlement for policing 2008-09 to 2010-11 in December 2007. This provided a background of stability and continuity against which the police and all stakeholders could plan, in partnership, with much greater certainty and confidence.On 26 November 2008 the Government confirmed that they are implementing the settlement for 2009-10 broadly unchanged from that announced last year.The information requested is set out in the following table.

Gloucestershire 2009-10
£ million
Additional Rule 2 Grant¹ 2.1
Dedicated Security Post Grant² —
Crime Fighting Fund 2.4
Neighbourhood Policing Fund/Police Community Support Officer Grant 3.1
Basic Command Unit Fund 0.3
¹ Additional Rule 2 Grant/Special Formula Grant comprises—Rural Policing Fund, Forensic (DNA) Grant, Special Priority Payments and the Initial Police Learning and Development Programme Grant.
² The overall figure for Dedicated Security Post (DSP) grant in England and Wales for 2009-10 has not yet been decided. However, for reasons of security, we do not disclose the level of funding provided to individual forces from the DSP grant.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
485 c731W; 240348
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Police Gloucestershire
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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