Events Income - 1168/21

Date Responded 23 September 2021

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Please give me separately for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 financial years the amount of income the Force received in the following categories:

Charging for Events (subdivided by)

Commercial Events
Non-Commercial Events
Charitable Events
Community Events
Small Scale Events
Charging for Football
Mutual Aid
Provision of Goods and Services to Third Parties (including Licensing and provision of information)
Charging for Services to Government Agencies
Charging for Police Services
Sponsorship
Grants and Bequests

After we sought clarity you advised:

Grants would relate to benefactions from individuals or organisations.

In Response:

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

	2019/20	2020/21
Special Duty Income
Commercial Events	£52,878.51	0
Community Events	£35,550.11	0
Small Scale Events	£677.90	0
Charging for Football	£338,592.86	£56,760.36*
Charging for Police Services	£48,296.78	£66,430.82

Mutual Aid	£449,407.42	£54,579.05

Provision of Goods and Services to Third Parties
Firearms Licences	£123,424.50	£152,970.50
Overseas Visitors registration	£108,120.00	£16,740.27
Pedlars Certificates	£220.50	£85.75
Information Disclosure/ Vetting Requests	£30,196.30	£42,419.97
Alarms registration	£26,229.80	£29,171.73
Information Reports	£193,798.43	£120,064.98
Fingerprinting services	£21,043.51	£7,960.37

Charging of Services to Government Agencies
UK Border Agency - Immigration recharges	£141,626	£23,834.70

Sponsorship	£15,600.00	£8,446.58

*In charging for football 2020/21 financial year the value is a grant received from the Premier League for events played behind closed doors.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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