Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue funding her Department has allocated to the North Yorkshire Police Authority in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 1995-96.

Damian Green

Table 1 shows the amount of core Government revenue funding
provided by the Home Office to the North Yorkshire Police Authority (from
November 2012 the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire) since
1995-96.

The figures in the table represent the amount of revenue funding provided by
the Home Office to North Yorkshire. However, due to changes in police revenue
funding over this time period (which include a move away from Regional Crime
Squads and a change in the way pensions are funded), it is difficult to
compare spending power between years.

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 funding to Police and Crime Commissioners in England. This amount was
previously paid by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
This will total £7.9 million for North Yorkshire in 2014/15 and is excluded
from the table to assist comparison with previous years.

In addition, the police in England also receive central government grant from
other sources including the DCLG. They also receive funding from the police
precept component of council tax and a small amount of income from charging for
additional services.