Police financial reserves: March 2017 (accessible version)
Updated 5 November 2018
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Police reserve levels as at 31 March 2017
| PCC | General fund (£m) | Earmarked reserves (£m) | Total resource reserves (£m) | Capital reserves (£m) | Resource reserves as a percentage of funding (%) | Change since March 2011 (£m) | % Change since March 2011(%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon & Somerset | 10.4 | 26.7 | 37.1 | 7.1 | 13.6% | 4.9 | 15.1% |
| Bedfordshire | 3.0 | 10.2 | 13.2 | 0.6 | 13.0% | 3.8 | 40.0% |
| Cambridgeshire | 7.2 | 21.3 | 28.5 | 1.2 | 21.9% | 10.4 | 57.6% |
| Cheshire | 5.8 | 8.5 | 14.3 | 5.8 | 8.3% | -3.9 | -21.6% |
| Cleveland | 8.0 | 6.4 | 14.4 | 0.7 | 11.7% | 1.3 | 10.3% |
| Cumbria | 3.0 | 21.3 | 24.3 | 6.3 | 24.2% | 2.3 | 10.5% |
| Derbyshire | 4.0 | 28.2 | 32.2 | 4.8 | 19.8% | -2.9 | -8.2% |
| Devon & Cornwall | 11.9 | 46.9 | 58.8 | 6.1 | 20.9% | 30.3 | 106.3% |
| Dorset | 7.4 | 5.7 | 13.1 | 3.9 | 10.9% | -4.6 | -26.0% |
| Durham | 5.7 | 7.3 | 13.0 | 5.3 | 11.5% | -2.6 | -16.4% |
| Dyfed-Powys | 4.5 | 21.9 | 26.4 | 0.9 | 27.3% | -0.4 | -1.4% |
| Essex | 13.2 | 9.1 | 22.2 | 0.0 | 8.3% | -9.9 | -30.7% |
| Gloucestershire | 5.4 | 20.9 | 26.3 | 4.4 | 24.7% | 4.4 | 20.0% |
| Greater Manchester | 13.2 | 66.5 | 79.8 | 0.0 | 14.6% | 29.4 | 58.5% |
| Gwent | 10.9 | 40.3 | 51.2 | 1.6 | 42.3% | 11.0 | 27.5% |
| Hampshire | 10.0 | 75.7 | 85.7 | 0.0 | 28.1% | 48.4 | 129.9% |
| Hertfordshire | 6.0 | 36.7 | 42.7 | 11.3 | 23.3% | 23.3 | 120.3% |
| Humberside | 5.2 | 29.1 | 34.3 | 0.5 | 20.0% | 0.5 | 1.4% |
| Kent | 5.6 | 27.2 | 32.8 | 28.7 | 11.7% | 12.2 | 59.3% |
| Lancashire | 9.9 | 36.9 | 46.7 | 0.4 | 18.0% | 26.6 | 132.5% |
| Leicestershire | 6.0 | 23.8 | 29.8 | 0.6 | 17.5% | 6.0 | 25.2% |
| Lincolnshire | 5.7 | 13.1 | 18.7 | 0.9 | 16.9% | 8.2 | 77.1% |
| Merseyside | 12.2 | 17.1 | 29.3 | 0.0 | 9.5% | -0.9 | -3.0% |
| Metropolitan Police | 23.5 | 216.8 | 240.2 | 349.8 | 9.6% | -29.4 | -10.9% |
| Norfolk | 4.5 | 20.8 | 25.3 | 0.5 | 17.0% | 3.3 | 15.2% |
| North Wales | 5.2 | 29.3 | 34.4 | 3.7 | 24.1% | 6.2 | 22.2% |
| North Yorkshire | 9.7 | 6.5 | 16.2 | 1.5 | 11.5% | -11.9 | -42.3% |
| Northamptonshire | 3.5 | 6.8 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 8.5% | -3.5 | -25.4% |
| Northumbria | 11.9 | 5.1 | 16.9 | 4.0 | 6.5% | -38.9 | -69.7% |
| Nottinghamshire | 7.1 | 11.8 | 18.9 | 3.3 | 9.9% | 2.5 | 15.6% |
| South Wales | 9.4 | 21.6 | 31.1 | 0.0 | 11.8% | -5.6 | -15.2% |
| South Yorkshire | 17.6 | 28.8 | 46.4 | 0.0 | 19.3% | 8.4 | 22.1% |
| Staffordshire | 5.5 | 7.8 | 13.3 | 0.3 | 7.5% | -0.1 | -0.9% |
| Suffolk | 5.0 | 5.8 | 10.8 | 0.3 | 9.6% | -3.7 | -25.3% |
| Surrey | 8.7 | 6.4 | 15.1 | 12.1 | 7.2% | 2.3 | 18.1% |
| Sussex | 10.8 | 50.5 | 61.3 | 1.9 | 23.9% | 9.6 | 18.6% |
| Thames Valley | 18.1 | 34.7 | 52.8 | 15.8 | 14.0% | 11.5 | 27.8% |
| Warwickshire | 6.8 | 19.2 | 26.0 | 0.0 | 28.7% | 5.6 | 27.4% |
| West Mercia | 13.5 | 39.6 | 53.1 | 0.4 | 26.4% | 21.1 | 65.7% |
| West Midlands | 12.0 | 94.0 | 106.0 | 15.1 | 20.2% | 26.9 | 34.0% |
| West Yorkshire | 29.3 | 61.8 | 91.1 | 8.6 | 22.3% | 60.7 | 200.0% |
| Wiltshire | 2.6 | 17.1 | 19.7 | 0.5 | 18.8% | 3.0 | 17.9% |
| Total England & Wales | 378.8 | 1,284.9 | 1,663.7 | 508.8 | 15.1% | 266.1 | 19.0% |
Source: All figures taken from audited PCC Group statements of accounts as of March 2017 No figures available for City of London Police
Figures may not sum due to rounding
Figures show total PCC usable reserves levels, including reserves held on behalf of others
*Greater Manchester figures are as at 7 May 2017, which was the end of their accounting period. This is due to the transfer of PCC responsibilities to the metro mayor Resource reserves as a percentage of funding show reserves as a percentage of 2017-18 direct resource funding (Government grant and precept)
Please note: March 2017 reserves figures are as published in January 2018. Figures may since have been restated in statements of accounts.