Question reference: S1W-00866
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 10 August 1999
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Current status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 3 September 1999
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make available financial assistance to Grampian Police Force to assist towards the estimated additional #300,000 cost of policing the millennium celebrations.
Answer
Police grant-aided expenditure for 1999-2000 was set at a level which assumed full use of Government funds available for expenditure on police services. However, while forces must plan to meet their expenditure from within the resources available to them, the funding position is kept under review and, if additional resources are identified, any police needs would be taken into account in distributing those.