– Scottish Parliament written question – answered on 17th September 1999.
Phil Gallie
Conservative
Question S1W-1293
To ask the Scottish Executive to detail the increase or decrease in funding of the police force in Scotland every year since 1979 in real terms.
Jim Wallace
Liberal Democrat
Police authorities receive a specific grant of 51% of net eligible expenditure. From 1996-97 the level of grant has been subject to a cash-limit.
The budgets for individual police forces are set by police authorities or joint boards and are not always set to claim the full amount of grant available.
The table shows the amount of specific grant paid to police authorities from 1979-80 to 1997-98. The figure for 1997-98 includes £3.5m provided specifically for policing the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
Year | Police Grant (Real Terms) £000s | Year-on-Year Increase/(Decrease) £000s | Year-on-Year % Change |
| TOP" width="20%"> 1979-80 | 198,390 | ||
1980-81 | 201,812 | 3,422 | 1.72 |
1981-82 | 211,212 | 9,400 | 4.66 |
1982-83 | 223,367 | 12,155 | 5.75 |
1983-84 | 228,712 | 5,345 | 2.39 |
1984-85 | 235,366 | 6,654 | 2.91 |
1985-86 | 234,798 | (568) | (0.24) |
1986-87 | 244,269 | 9,471 | 4.03 |
1987-88 | 254,014 | 9,745 | 3.99 |
1988-89 | 260,094 | 6,080 | 2.63 |
1989-90 | 276,577 | 16,483 | 6.09 |
1990-91 | 274,754 | (1,823) | (0.66) |
1991-92 | 281,618 | 6,864 | 2.50 |
1992-93 | 295,198 | 13,580 | 4.82 |
1993-94 | 307,368 | 12,170 | 4.12 |
1994-95 | 306,716 | (652) | (0.21) |
1995-96 | 312,031 | 5,315 | 1.73 |
1996-97 | 311,629 | (402) | (0.13) |
1997-98 | 337,931 | 26,302 | 8.44 |
1998-99 | 337,500 | (431) | (0.13) |
1999-2000 | 343,316 | 5,816 | 1.72 |
The cash figures have been recalculated to show the equivalent real term figures at 1998-99 prices using the GDP deflator.
The figures for 1998-99 and 1999-2000 are estimates
Yes1 person thinks so
No0 people think not
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