Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) amount of direct Government funding and (b) contribution from council tax through the police precept to each police force in England in each year from 2009 to 2016.

Earlier this year the Home Office published a statistical bulletin setting out the breakdown of general Government grant funding and precept funding for each force for the years 2015-16 to 2018-19, available at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2019

Police Grant Reports and accompanying Written Ministerial Statements setting out the grant funding provided by the Home Office are available for the years since 2010-11 at the address below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance

The 2009-10 Police Grant Report can be found at the link below.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/98274/police-grant-report.pdf

Council tax information for Police and Crime Commissioners in England since 2011-12 is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and is available at the link below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics

The 2009-10 and 2010-11 council tax information can be found at the links below.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919221338/http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax200910

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120919171510/http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/counciltax201011