Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 January 1997.
I have, indeed, undertaken to review the application of the national funding formula to the Metropolitan police and the arrangements that we have made for the funding of the Metropolitan police include a recognition of the special needs of the Metropolitan police force. Indeed, the funding that we propose for 1997–98 represents a 3.4 per cent. increase on the 1996–97 allocation—an increase of no less than £55 million.