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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent to date on the Airwave communications system, broken down by police force area. [138528] Ms Blears: It is estimated that the Airwave service contract for the provision of the police service's new digital radio communication service will cost £2.3 billion (at 1999 prices) over the 22-year lifetime of the project. In addition, forces have to procure radio terminals and to modernise control rooms. Funding is provided centrally by the Home Office and locally by police authorities. To date, the Home Office has provided a total of £336.4 million to police forces in England and Wales for Airwave. The break-down by police force area is given in the table. Home Office spend on airwave to date broken down by police force area _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Force £ million Avon & Somerset 8.9 Bedfordshire 3.2 Cambridgeshire 4,4 Cheshire 4.2 City of London 2.2 Cleveland 3.9 Cumbria 2.3 Derbyshire 5.7 Devon & Cornwall 6.7 Dorset 3.2 Durham 3.9 Dyfed-Powys 1.4 Essex Police 6.9 Gloucestershire 3.1 Greater Manchester 31.6 Gwent 3.0 Hampshire 7.6 Hertfordshire 4.9 Humberside 6.3 Kent 7.2 Lancashire 14.5 Leicestershire 8.1 Lincolnshire 3.3 Merseyside 11.2 Nottinghamshire 6.8 Norfolk 3.2 Northamptonshire 2.5 North Yorkshire 3.5 North Wales 2.9 Northumbria 11.8 South Wales 7.8 South Yorkshire 8.3 Staffordshire 4.4 Suffolk 5.4 Surrey 4.7 Sussex 6.4 Thames Valley 10.8 Warwickshire 2.0 West Mercia 8.6 West Midlands 14.7 West Yorkshire 11.1 Wiltshire 2.9 Metropolitan Police 60.9 TOTAL 336.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

138528; 413 c818-9W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Expenditure Police Radio Airwave service

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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