Home Department written question – answered at on 25 June 2003.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what specific or direct grants have been made by his Department to local authorities for 2003–04 (a) in England and (b) broken down by local authority, identifying whether the grant is (i) ring fenced, (ii) a specific formula grant, (iii) within aggregate external finance and (iv) outside aggregate external finance.
The Home Office pays a variety of grants to local authorities. Details, first for police authorities, then for local councils, are given in the tables.
The following specific or direct grants are being or will be paid to police authorities in 2003–04:
Police Authority | Police Grant(25),(26) | Police Capital Grant | Crime fighting Fund(27) | Rural Policing(27) | Airwave(25),(26) | Street Crime(27) | Basic Command Units(27) | Community Support Officers(27) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Avon and Somerset | 97.50 | 2.09 | 5.35 | 0.98 | 0.51 | 1.20 | 1.75 | 0.27 |
Bedfordshire | 37.17 | 0.84 | 2.56 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.07 |
Cambridgeshire | 45.70 | 1.02 | 2.28 | 1.10 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0.58 | 0.26 |
Cheshire | 65.77 | 1.45 | 3.98 | 0.23 | 4.44 | 0.00 | 0.66 | 0.13 |
City of London | 32.47 | 0.71 | 1.29 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.00 |
Cleveland | 47.52 | 1.04 | 2.04 | 0.00 | 0.56 | 0.00 | 0.64 | 0.12 |
Cumbria | 34.88 | 0.76 | 2.01 | 1.36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.31 | 0.00 |
Derbyshire | 59.79 | 1.31 | 4.31 | 0.41 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.77 | 0.00 |
Devon and Cornwall | 101.22 | 2.21 | 6.37 | 3.12 | 0.39 | 0.00 | 0.84 | 0.24 |
Dorset | 39.69 | 1.05 | 2.31 | 0.44 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.00 |
Durham | 46.76 | 1.03 | 2.63 | 0.24 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.51 | 0.13 |
Dyfed-Powys | 30.12 | 0.65 | 2.16 | 2.62 | 0.65 | 0.00 | 0.27 | 0.00 |
Essex | 94.67 | 2.12 | 5.79 | 0.50 | 2.33 | 0.00 | 1.03 | 0.03 |
Gloucestershire | 36.00 | 0.78 | 2.33 | 0.78 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.17 |
Greater Manchester | 219.35 | 4.81 | 16.13 | 0.00 | 1.13 | 2.09 | 3.53 | 0.23 |
Gwent | 40.90 | 0.91 | 2.22 | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.48 | 0.16 |
Hampshire | 114.03 | 2.52 | 6.90 | 0.22 | 8.19 | 0.00 | 1.23 | 0.00 |
Hertfordshire | 64.82 | 1.49 | 3.14 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.56 | 0.23 |
Humberside | 64.95 | 1.42 | 3.75 | 0.70 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0.95 | 0.00 |
Kent | 106.11 | 2.37 | 7.32 | 0.60 | 7.15 | 0.00 | 1.05 | 0.41 |
Lancashire | 105.22 | 2.29 | 6.19 | 0.06 | 0.54 | 0.44 | 1.15 | 0.30 |
Leicestershire | 60.03 | 1.35 | 3.83 | 0.43 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.82 | 0.15 |
Lincolnshire | 36.92 | 0.78 | 2.07 | 2.03 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 0.07 |
Mersevside | 134.48 | 2.83 | 9.03 | 0.00 | 3.87 | 0.78 | 1.39 | 0.28 |
Metropolitan Police | 1,082.40 | 24.40 | 70.46 | 0.00 | 15.02 | 8.01 | 9.91 | 1.47 |
Norfolk | 49.98 | 1.11 | 3.07 | 2.08 | 3.23 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.13 |
Northamptonshire- | 39.93 | 0.90 | 2.44 | 0.71 | 2.63 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.00 |
Northumbria | 123.56 | 2.72 | 6.91 | 0.00 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 1.35 | 0.33 |
North Wales | 44.71 | 0.99 | 2.85 | 1.54 | 0.87 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.07 |
North Yorkshire | 44.62 | 0.96 | 1.85 | 2.02 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.45 | 0.30 |
Nottinghamshire- | 72.42 | 1.56 | 4.32 | 0.00 | 1.13 | 0.85 | 1.31 | 0.30 |
South Wales | 93.45 | 1.99 | 4.33 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.00 | 1.11 | 0.35 |
South Yorkshire | 98.45 | 2.19 | 5.44 | 0.00 | 5.60 | 0.76 | 1.22 | 0.04 |
Staffordshire | 64.44 | 1.38 | 3.99 | 0.27 | 4.36 | 0.00 | 1.01 | 0.05 |
Suffolk | 40.32 | 0.88 | 2.25 | 1.41 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.41 | 0.09 |
Surrey | 53.95 | 1.22 | 3.93 | 0.01 | 3.45 | 0.00 | 0.51 | 0.05 |
Sussex | 94.85 | 2.06 | 5.86 | 0.54 | 2.06 | 0.00 | 1.17 | 0.34 |
Thames Valley | 132.22 | 3.03 | 9.52 | 1.25 | 1.01 | 1.35 | 1.71 | 0.06 |
Warwickshire | 30.65 | 0.67 | 1.61 | 0.56 | 2.14 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 0.11 |
West Mercia | 66.71 | 1.47 | 4.13 | 2.34 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 0.88 | 0.21 |
West Midlands | 231 .26 | 5.17 | 14.40 | 0.00 | 15.55 | 1.80 | 3.70 | 0.34 |
West Yorkshire | 170.18 | 3.70 | 8.11 | 0.00 | 4.09 | 1.37 | 2.76 | 0.75 |
Wiltshire | 37.83 | 0.84 | 2.06 | 1.10 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.32 | 0.08 |
Yet to be allocated | 0.00 | 22.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.35 | 0.00 | 32.70 |
Total | 4,288.00 | 117.11 | 263.52 | 30.01 | 96.18 | 25.00 | 49.98 | 41.00 |
(25) Police grant is a specific formula grant within Aggregate External Finance (AEF), which includes the Special Payment to the Metropolitan Police, but does not include grants the Home Secretary pays to Dyfed Powys [£0.5 million] and South Wales [£4.7 million] to bring them up to the general grant
"floor". It is not ring-fenced.
(26) From time to time the Home Secretary may pay special grants to police authorities to assist with extraordinary pressures. These grants may be allocated at any time during the year. They are not within AEF.
(27) These grants are ring-fenced and inside AEF.
(28) The Airwave grant includes £0 million of capital provision.
In addition, Home Office funding totalling £61.5 million is being made available to the police service in England and Wales for specific counter terrorist operations and other counter terrorist measures. Of this sum, some £47 million is allocated to the Metropolitan Police and £14.5 million to other forces to counter the increased threat from international terrorism since the terrorist attacks of
The individual allocations for the following specific grants to police authorities have yet to be finalised:
£ million | |
---|---|
Outer London Pay | 29 |
Lead and Free Travel(29) | |
London and SE Allowance(29) | 13 |
PNB(29) | 38 |
DMA(29) | 55 |
Retention of officers over 30 years(29) | 1 |
Special Constables(29) | 8 |
Occupational Health(29) | 5 |
Reform Deal(29) | 8 |
National Non-Emergency Number(29) | 3 |
Model(29) | 2 |
Total | 162 |
(29) Notes:These grants are ring-fenced and inside AEF
The following grants are being, or will be, paid to local councils.
Councils that receive asylum seekers are eligible for the Adult and Family Asylum Seekers Grant and/or the Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Grant. The amounts payable are dependent on the number of asylum seekers received and are not known at this stage. The grants are outside AEF.
Community Cohesion Pathfinder grant will be paid to the following local authorities, who will each receive £75,000 in 2003–04.
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
East Lancashire Partnership 1
Leicester Qty Council
Peterborough Qty Council
Plymouth Qty Council
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Stoke-on-Trent Qty Council
West London Alliance 2
The grant is outside AEF.
Notes:
1 Lancashire County Council and Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle and Rossendale Borough Councils. The grant is paid to Pendle.
2 The London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow. The grant is paid to Ealing.
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