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Written statement made by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Home Office.

Police Authority Grant

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department, has today laid before the House the Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2010-11 (HC 278), copies of which are available in the Vote Office. The report sets out my right hon. Friend's determination for 2010-11 of the aggregate amount of grant that he 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 Metropolitan Police Authority. General police grant allocations, which include Home Office Police Grant and Department of Communities and Local Government/Welsh Assembly Government General Grant for each police authority for 2009-10 and 2010-11 are set out in the table.

Police Authority 2009-10 2010-11 Change on
Formula Allocation¹ Allocation¹ 2009-10 Formula Allocation
£m £m %
English Shire Authorities
Avon & Somerset 179.7 186.1 3.5%
Bedfordshire 70.8 73.1 3.3%
Cambridgeshire 81.0 83.5 3.0%
Cheshire 120.5 123.5 2.5%
Cleveland 97.7 100.1 2.5%
Cumbria 67.2 68.9 2.5%
Derbyshire 112.6 116.2 3.1%
Devon & Cornwall 186.4 191.1 2.5%
Dorset 65.3 66.9 2.5%
Durham 91.4 93.7 2.5%
Essex 177.9 183.1 2.9%
Gloucestershire 59.3 60.8 2.5%
Hampshire 207.5 213.0 2.7%
Hertfordshire 121.2 124.9 3.0%
Humberside 128.4 131.8 2.6%
Kent 192.1 197.4 2.7%
Lancashire 204.1 209.7 2.7%
Leicestershire 118.0 121.4 2.9%
Lincolnshire 64.3 66.3 3.2%
Norfolk 87.6 89.8 2.5%
North Yorkshire 76.7 78.6 2.5%
Northamptonshire 75.5 77.5 2.7%
Nottinghamshire 141.4 146.0 3.3%
Staffordshire 120.6 123.8 2.7%
Suffolk 71.0 72.7 2.5%
Surrey 101.8 104.4 2.5%
Sussex 169.8 174.1 2.5%
Thames Valley 238.2 244.7 2.8%
Warwickshire 54.1 55.6 2.7%
West Mercia 121.8 124.9 2.5%
Wiltshire 65.2 66.8 2.5%
Shires Total 3669.0 3770.0 2.8%
English Metropolitan Authorities
Greater Manchester 458.9 472.5 3.0%
Merseyside 267.4 274.3 2.6%
Northumbria 249.9 256.2 2.5%
South Yorkshire 204.1 209.2 2.5%
West Midlands 486.1 504.3 3.8%
West Yorkshire 339.2 350.5 3.3%
Mets Total 2005.7 2067.1 3.1%
London Authorities
GLA - Police 1978.3 2027.7 2.5%
City of London² 21.0 21.8 N/A
English Total 7674.0 7886.6 2.8%
Welsh Authorities
Dyfed-Powys³ 54.4 55.8 2.5%
Gwent³ 82.6 84.7 2.5%
North Wales³ 80.1 82.1 2.5%
South Wales³ 181.5 186.4 2.7%
Welsh Total 398.6 409.0 2.6%
TOTAL 8072.6 8295.7 2.7%
Notes
¹ Rounded to the nearest £100,000. Grant as calculated under the Local Government Finance Report (England) and Local Government Finance (No.2 - Provisional Settlement Police Authorities) Report (Wales). Table includes the effects of floors and scaling.² Figures for the City of London relate to Home Office Grant only as calculated in the Police Grant Report (England and Wales). Revenue Support Grant is allocated to the Common Council of the City of London as a whole in respect of all its functions. The City is grouped with education authorities for the purposes of grant floors.
³ Welsh figures include Home Office floor funding.

Secondary information

Type
Written statement
Reference
504 c24-6WS 
Session
2009-10
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Subjects
Finance Police
Contains statistics
Yes
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