How your money is spent

Here you will be able to find details of how the Commissioner spends and allocates the funding.

Click on the links below to open the documents. More information will follow.

Reserves

Reserves play an important part in any sound financial strategy. They assist the Commissioner and Chief Constable to manage the budget in the short/medium term but also to invest in new initiatives that reinforce Derbyshire’s commitment to responding to the ever-changing profile of policing ‘demand.

Our Reserves Strategy is refreshed each year, just before we set our budget. The current strategy was approved in November 2017 by the Commissioner (at the Strategic Governance Board) as part of the update to our financial projections and is found HERE..Please note, Appendix B of the report refers specifically to the Budget and Reserves Strategy.

In January/February of each year, the Commissioner sets both the Budget and the Precept (contribution from council tax). As part of the papers that assist him in reaching that decision, we include a forecast of our reserves over the period covered by our Medium Term Financial Plan. In January 2018, we provided a list of all of our reserves and showed our forecasted usage until 2021/22. The Commissioner approved the movements to/from reserves for the forthcoming year (2018/19 in this case) but also noted the forecast for the years beyond that point.

The budget reports are found further down this page (and linked again HERE) and the specific report showing the reserves and how we estimate they will be utilised is found in Annex D to that report (near the end). For ease of access, however, the specific report can be found HERE.

Each of our reserves are held for specific purposes. In the case of our PFI and Insurance reserves they are considered ‘unuseable’ in that they must be kept for their intended purposes under sound financial management purposes. Other ‘useable’ reserves are those that we have more discretion over. However, it is important to understand the reason why we hold reserves and that it is a key part of demonstrating that we are managing public finances appropriately. Each reserve is described in the following document HERE.

Expenses

Expenses which can be claimed by members of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner can be found on the page named Expenses, Declarations and Interests. This is within the Your PCC section.

How your money is spent

Reserves

Expenses

Statement of Accounts and Audit Information

Statements of Accounts

The Precept and Council Tax Information

Precept Proposals 2014

Precept Proposals 2015

Precept Proposals 2016

Precept Proposals 2017

Precept Proposals 2018

Financial Handbook

Total Budget and proposed expenditure of the Police and Crime Commissioner

Investment and anticipated revenue

Assets

Information as to any item of expenditure exceeding £500

Contracts and Tenders