Asked by: Mark Spencer (Conservative - Sherwood)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the Government spend per head of population on police services in (a) Nottinghamshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) England in each of the last three years.
Answered by Damian Green
The table shows total core Government funding per head of population provided
to each Police and Crime Commissioner (previously Police Authority) in the
East Midlands region and to England for each of the last three years.
Core Government funding to the police is distributed using the Police
Allocation Formula. The Formula takes into account the relative needs of
individual police force areas, not regions. A composite figure for the East
Midlands region is therefore not shown.
| Total Core Governement Funding Per Head of Population (£)* ** | |||||
| 2012/13 | 2013/14** | 2014/15*** | |||
| Derbyshire | 109.29 | 107.50 | 101.67 | ||
| Leicestershire | 114.95 | 112.70 | 106.43 | ||
| Lincolnshire | 91.65 | 89.32 | 84.10 | ||
| Nottinghamshire | 126.27 | 126.60 | 119.70 | ||
| Northamptonshire | 106.15 | 105.51 | 99.31 | ||
| England | 145.14 | 141.46 | 133.52 | ||
| *Figures are based on total core Government funding which encompasses all formula funding to the police. | |||||
| **Population figures are based on the Census projections that were used in the Police Allocation Formula to calculate funding allocations in 2012/13 and 2013/14. The population figures for 2014 are based on the latest Census projection, as the Police Allocation Formula was not run in 2014/15. | |||||
| ***The Neigbourhood Policing Fund (NPF) was rolled into Police Main Grant in 2013/14. To assist comparison, the NPF allocations have been included in the 2012/13 figures. | |||||
| ****The Community Safety Fund (CSF) was rolled into Police Main Grant in 2014/15. To assist comparison, CSF allocations have been included in the 2014/15 figures. | |||||
| Additional notes | |||||
| 1) From 2014/15, the Home Office is also paying out Council Tax Freeze Grant funding relating to the 2011/12 and 2013/14 schemes and Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) funding to PCCs in England. This funding was previously paid to the police by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). This is excluded from the table to assist comparison with previous years. | |||||
| 2) The police in England also receive small amounts of central government grant from other sources including the DCLG and Ministry of Justice. They also receive funding from the police precept component of council tax. | |||||