Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police funding was derived from the police precept in (a) 1996 and (b) 2006.

Due to significant changes in the structure of police funding and policing in England and Wales in the financial year ending March 2016, it is difficult to make a direct comparison of the proportion of total police funding that was derived from police precept over the requested period of time.

However, the overall level of police precept in 1996-97 was £832.8 million and in 2006-07 was £2,639.5 million.

Further historical information regarding police funding for England and Wales is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-police-funding