Funding the English & Welsh police service: from boom to bust?

Abstract

Between 2000-01 and 2010-11, total police spending increased by 31% in real terms. This was mainly due to increases in precept revenues, which increased from 17% of total revenues to 25%. • The forces that saw the biggest increases in police spending over the 2000s were those that increased revenues from the precept by the most. North Yorkshire more than tripled its precept revenues between 2000-01 and 2010-11 and saw overall revenues increase by more than 50%, whereas Northumbria increased precept revenues by only a third and saw overall revenues increase by just 14%.