Prisons: Overcrowding
(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been allocated to each police force in England and Wales for the use of police cells under Operation Safeguard in the latest period for which data is available.
Operation Safeguard is a contingency measure that provides additional headroom for use if prisoners cannot be accepted from the courts or police custody. It is a temporary measure to provide a short-term solution. When Operation Safeguard is active, tactical and operational governance reviews take place at regular intervals, as agreed with police partners.
There are no additional costs to the taxpayer and any spend under Operation Safeguard comes from within existing departmental budgets. Every aspect of Operation Safeguard – including compensation for cells – is based on agreements between HMPPS, the police and the Home Office. Spend is recorded on a cost-recovery basis.
Please see table below setting out payments to police forces in England and Wales for the activation of Operation Safeguard cells for the period February 2023 to September 2023.
Force | TOTAL |
Avon and Somerset Constabulary | £ 257,490 |
Bedfordshire Police | £ 393,946 |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | £ 306,866 |
Cheshire Constabulary | £ 1,405,443 |
City Of London Police | £ 142,751 |
Cleveland Police | £ 740,187 |
Cumbria Constabulary | £ 430,269 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | £ 1,020,938 |
Devon & Cornwall Police | £ 3,558 |
Dorset Police | £ - |
Durham Constabulary | £ - |
Dyfed-Powys Police | £ 329,689 |
Essex Police | £ 402,332 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | £ 1,287,400 |
Greater Manchester Police | £ 1,300,907 |
Gwent Police | £ 268,352 |
Hampshire Constabulary | £ 634,727 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | £ 357,747 |
Humberside Police | £ 737,756 |
Kent Police | £ 1,317,995 |
Lancashire Constabulary | £ 888,225 |
Leicestershire Police | £ 524,547 |
Lincolnshire Police | £ 302,002 |
Merseyside Police | £ 577,703 |
Metropolitan Police Service | £ 1,754,689 |
Norfolk Constabulary | £ 710,459 |
North Wales Police | £ 774,771 |
North Yorkshire Police | £ 879,812 |
Northamptonshire Police | £ 904,269 |
Northumbria Police | £ 2,008,809 |
Nottinghamshire Police | £ 1,943,318 |
South Wales Police | £ 913,705 |
South Yorkshire Police | £ 888,225 |
Staffordshire Police | £1,374,063 |
Suffolk Constabulary | £ - |
Surrey Police | £ 548,301 |
Sussex Police | £ 549,283 |
Thames Valley Police | £ 1,301,560 |
Warwickshire Police | £ 828,059 |
West Mercia Police | £ 1,697,009 |
West Midlands Police | £ 6,594,079 |
West Yorkshire Police | £ 1,489,934 |
Wiltshire Police | £ - |
Central Silver Team | £ 169,585 |