House of Lords written question – answered at on 17 May 2000.
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they intend to accelerate police recruitment under the Crime Fighting Fund.
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Since then, and as a result of the funding decisions outlined by my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Budget, my right honourable friend the Home Secretary was able to announce in another place (House of Commons, Official Report, cols. 1-3W) that part of the £91 million provided in the Budget for modernising the police service in England and Wales would be used to accelerate the CFF with a view to delivering the 5,000 recruits within the first two years of the scheme.
My right honourable friend has consulted the police service and police authority representatives and he is now pleased to announce that forces will be able to recruit up to a maximum of 3,000 new recruits in year 1 of the scheme (2000-01), rather than 1,000 as announced in February, and the remaining 2,000 in year 2 (2001-02). Tripling the number which can be recruited during the current financial year will cost about £24 millon above and beyond the £35 million which has already been provided for the current allocation. Further decisions on funding for the police service for 2001-04 will be announced as part of the Spending Review 2000 in the summer.
The table shows the revised distribution of officers allocated to each force under the accelerated scheme.
Home Office officials have today written to each chief constable and each police authority to explain the funding arrangements under the scheme. I have placed a copy of the letter in the Library.
The funding for each force will be determined once each force has provided a profile of their planned recruitment during the first year. This will help ensure that funding can be maintained for forces to recruit up to the maximum in year 1. Forces are also being given the opportunity, by prior agreement, to revise their CFF allocations if they are experiencing difficulty in recruitment by deferring part of their allocation to year 2 and, for those who are able to, to accelerate some of their year 2 allocation into year 1. No force will be able to exceed its overall total CFF allocation and any increase may be limited by the total CFF budget for year 1.
2000-01 | 2001-02 | ||
Forces | Year 1 | Year 2 | Total |
Avon & Somerset | 67 | 34 | 101 |
Bedfordshire | 28 | 27 | 55 |
Cambridgeshire | 37 | 5 | 42 |
Cheshire | 47 | 39 | 86 |
City of London | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Cleveland | 20 | 8 | 28 |
Cumbria | 25 | 15 | 40 |
Derbyshire | 49 | 52 | 101 |
Devon & Cornwall | 77 | 61 | 138 |
Dorset | 29 | 17 | 46 |
Durham | 36 | 15 | 51 |
Dyfed-Powys | 25 | 25 | 50 |
Essex | 70 | 33 | 103 |
Gloucestershire | 29 | 23 | 52 |
Greater Manchester | 186 | 192 | 378 |
Gwent | 31 | 12 | 43 |
Hampshire | 82 | 51 | 133 |
Hertfordshire | 40 | 5 | 45 |
Humberside | 47 | 27 | 74 |
Kent | 82 | 64 | 146 |
Lancashire | 75 | 51 | 126 |
Leicestershire | 46 | 37 | 83 |
Lincolnshire | 29 | 12 | 41 |
Merseyside | 105 | 96 | 201 |
Metropolitan | 663 | 450 | 1,113 |
Norfolk | 35 | 31 | 66 |
North Wales | 34 | 28 | 62 |
North Yorkshire | 20 | 5 | 25 |
Northamptonshire | 32 | 21 | 53 |
Northumbria | 85 | 51 | 136 |
Nottinghamshire | 52 | 35 | 87 |
South Wales | 59 | 9 | 68 |
South Yorkshire | 67 | 34 | 101 |
Staffordshire | 49 | 34 | 83 |
Suffolk | 31 | 14 | 45 |
Surrey | 46 | 32 | 78 |
Sussex | 69 | 43 | 112 |
Thames Valley | 111 | 89 | 200 |
Warwickshire | 21 | 9 | 30 |
West Mercia* | 50 | 39 | 89 |
West Midlands | 173 | 137 | 310 |
West Yorkshire | 107 | 24 | 131 |
Wiltshire | 26 | 14 | 40 |
TOTAL | 3,000 | 2,000 | 5,000 |
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