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Football costs - 364/19

Date Responded 08 April 2019

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:

1.The amount of money spent by Northumbria Police on policing professional football matches within the following time periods...

1st August 2015 - 1st March 2016  

1st August 2016 - 1st March 2017 

1st August 2017 - 1st March 2018 

1st August 2018 - 1st March 2019

I would like this information broken down by football club (e.g. the amount spent policing matches at each professional club).

2.Separately, I would like to request the amount of money Northumbria Police has recovered from professional football clubs for the policing of football matches during the same time periods, broken down by club.

In Response:

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

                   2015/16          2016/17          2017/18              2018/19  to 31/03/19

Newcastle     £196,829        147,319         162,796              148,558

Sunderland   £300,585        302,151        348,441              188,570

 

2.No information held.   We do not collate/calculate the actual amount of money spent by Northumbria Police on policing professional football matches.

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.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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