Debate: Police Grant Report England and Wales

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Police Grant Report England and Wales

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Wednesday 4th February 2015

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The Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims (Mike Penning)

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My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House, the “Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2015-16” (HC 930). The report sets out my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary’s determination for 2015-16 of the aggregate amount of grant that she 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 Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. Copies of the report are available from the Vote Office.

At the time the provisional police grant report was published on 17 December 2014, I said that I was also considering whether a limited amount of police capital grant would be reallocated to support the communications capabilities development (CCD) programme and emergency services mobile communications programmes (ESMCP). After careful consideration I have decided that £20 million will be reallocated to support the CCD programme. This will reduce overall infrastructure costs, maintain capabilities to comply with current legislation, and develop future communications capability. More time is needed to fully define the capital requirements for ESMCP in the future and so I have decided that it is not appropriate to reallocate funding for this programme in 2015-16.

This statement also includes details of other funding streams that the Home Office, the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Welsh Government intend to provide to the police in 2015-16.

The police grant settlement 2015-16

*Table 1: Police revenue funding 2015-16*
	2015-16
Total General Funding:	£m
Comprising….
Police Core Settlement	4,309*
of which Home Office Police Main Grant	4,136
of which National and International, Capital City Grant (MOPAC only)	174
Former DCLG funding	2,851
of which formula funding	2,818
of which Ordnance Survey	2
of which Legacy Council Tax Freeze	31
Welsh Government	135

Total Home Office Specific Grants:	822**
Comprising….
Welsh Top-up	13
Counter Terrorism Police Grant	564
Police Innovation Fund	70
Police Knowledge Fund	5
Independent Police Complaints Commission (for the transfer of integrity functions)	30
College of Policing (for direct entry schemes)	5
City of London National and International Capital City Grant	3
HMIC (for PEEL inspection regime)	9
Police Special Grant	15
Major Programmes	40
Legacy Council Tax Freeze Grants
of which Council Tax 2011-12 freeze grant	59
of which Council Tax 2013-14 freeze grant	7
of which Council Tax 2014-15 freeze grant	3
Police Private Finance Initiatives	73
Total Government Funding^*^	8,190
% cash change in Total Government Funding^****	-3.5%
% real change in total Government funding	-4.9%
^{* }Rounded to the nearest £m ^The police will also separately receive £434.4 million in local council tax support grant. This will be paid by the Home Office. ^***This is the difference in total central Government funding to the police compared to 2014-15. The reduction in core Government funding (i.e. funding that is subject to damping) is 5.1%.

*Table 2: Division of police capital between funding streams*
2015-16 Police Capital	£m
Police Capital Grant	89.5
Police Special Capital	1
Communications Capabilities Development (CCD)	20
NPAS	10.4
Total	120.9

*Table 3: Revenue allocations for England and Wales 2015-16*
Local Policing Body	HO core (including Rule 1)	Welsh Top-up	Welsh Government	Ex-DCLG Formula Funding	Legacy Council Tax Grants (total from HO)
	£m				£m
Avon and Somerset	105.6	-	-	56.8	14.7
Bedfordshire	40.6	-	-	23.5	4.6
Cambridgeshire	48.8	-	-	24.5	6.0
Cheshire	61.8	-	-	45.0	8.3
City of London	18.5	-	-	33.8	0.1
Cleveland	46.4	-	-	38.8	7.7
Cumbria	28.9	-	-	31.0	4.8
Derbyshire	62.5	-	-	37.9	8.7
Devon and Cornwall	103.3	-	-	63.5	15.5
Dorset	41.5	-	-	17.4	7.3
Durham	43.0	-	-	37.2	6.1
Dyfed-Powys	31.4	6.1	12.8	0.0	-
Essex	103.4	-	-	56.3	13.1
Gloucestershire	34.6	-	-	19.6	5.6
Greater London Authority	1,040.1	-	-	754.1	119.7
Greater Manchester	227.9	-	-	182.4	24.5
Gwent	43.2	-	29.7	0.0	-
Hampshire	120.7	-	-	63.5	12.9
Hertfordshire	71.8	-	-	36.6	9.5
Humberside	67.6	-	-	46.8	10.0
Kent	106.9	-	-	67.0	13.3
Lancashire	101.1	-	-	79.6	12.8
Leicestershire	65.7	-	-	39.9	8.9
Lincolnshire	38.6	-	-	20.4	6.8
Merseyside	123.2	-	-	113.5	15.6
Norfolk	50.5	-	-	28.9	9.3
North Wales	45.4	6.5	21.3	0.0	-
North Yorkshire	41.9	-	-	27.2	7.9
Northamptonshire	43.4	-	-	24.3	6.6
Northumbria	110.8	-	-	108.0	8.2
Nottinghamshire	78.4	-	-	48.4	9.7
South Wales	89.3	-	71.2	0.0	-
South Yorkshire	101.2	-	-	77.9	10.9
Staffordshire	66.9	-	-	40.2	11.3
Suffolk	41.0	-	-	23.0	6.8
Surrey	62.5	-	-	29.4	9.2
Sussex	98.4	-	-	54.2	13.2
Thames Valley	142.0	-	-	74.3	15.3
Warwickshire	31.2	-	-	17.5	5.2
West Mercia	66.7	-	-	43.6	12.0
West Midlands	252.3	-	-	181.3	19.0
West Yorkshire	172.5	-	-	130.1	16.7
Wiltshire	37.7	-	-	20.8	5.2
Total England & Wales	4,309.2	12.5	135.0	2,818.3	503.2

*Table 4: Capital allocations for England and Wales 2015-16*
Local Policing Body	£m
Avon and Somerset	2.0
Bedfordshire	0.8
Cambridgeshire	1.0
Cheshire	1.3
City of London	0.7
Cleveland	1.0
Cumbria	0.7
Derbyshire	1.2
Devon and Cornwall	2.2
Dorset	0.8
Durham	1.0
Dyfed-Powys	0.6
Essex	1.8
Gloucestershire	0.7
Greater Manchester	4.5
Gwent	0.9
Hampshire	2.3
Hertfordshire	1.1
Humberside	1.4
Kent	2.1
Lancashire	2.1
Leicestershire	1.3
Lincolnshire	0.8
Merseyside	2.6
Metropolitan	23.7
Norfolk	1.0
North Wales	0.9
North Yorkshire	0.8
Northamptonshire	0.8
Northumbria	2.5
Nottinghamshire	1.4
South Wales	1.9
South Yorkshire	2.1
Staffordshire	1.3
Suffolk	0.9
Surrey	1.2
Sussex	1.8
Thames Valley	2.9
Warwickshire	0.8
West Mercia	1.4
West Midlands	4.8
West Yorkshire	3.5
Wiltshire	0.8
Total England & Wales	89.5

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